And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.
The priest shall have to himself the skin. All the flesh and the fat of the burnt offerings being consumed, nothing remained but the skin, which was flayed (see the note at Leviticus 1:6) and given to the priest. It was a rich and valuable perquisite (Philo, 'De Sacerd. Honor.,' p. 833), as goat and sheep skins were used for mattresses (Leviticus 15:17), as well as for various other purposes of personal and domestic convenience. It has been thought that this was a patriarchal usage, incorporated with the Mosaic law, and that the right of the sacrificer to the skin of the victim was transmitted from the time of Adam (see the note at Genesis 3:21).