Leviticus 1:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

With its feathers — Or, with its dung or filth, contained in the crop and in the guts. On the east — Of the Tabernacle. Here the filth was cast, because this was the remotest place from the holy of holies, which was in the west — end; to teach us, that impure things and persons should not presume to approach to God, and that they should be banished from his presence. The place of the ashes — Where the ashes fell down and lay, whence they were afterwards removed without the camp.

Leviticus 1:16

16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers,a and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes: