Leviticus 1:10-13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

Offering of Sheep or Goat. The ritual is identical. The choice of victim more or less expensive is left to the worshipper, Leviticus 1:11 adds the detail of northward (cf. Leviticus 4:24, and Leviticus 7:2). Eastward is the tent or Temple building (the whole sanctuary lies E. and W.); W. is the laver, S. is the approach.

Leviticus 1:10-13

10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.

11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.

12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.