Leviticus 6:10

6:10 Then the priest must put on his linen robe and must put linen leggings ¹  over his bare flesh, and he must take up the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire consumed on the altar, ²  and he must place them ³  beside the altar.

Leviticus 16:27

16:27 The bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the holy place, must be brought outside the camp ⁴  and their hide, their flesh, and their dung must be burned up, ⁵ 

Leviticus 17:14

17:14 for the life of all flesh is its blood. ⁶  So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing ⁷  because the life of every living thing is its blood – all who eat it will be cut off. ⁸ 

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¹ tn The exact nature of this article of the priest’s clothing is difficult to determine. Cf. KJV, ASV “breeches”; NAB “drawers”; NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “undergarments”; NCV “underclothes”; CEV “underwear”; TEV “shorts.”

² tn Heb “he shall lift up the fatty ashes which the fire shall consume the burnt offering on the altar.”

³ tn Heb “it,” referring the “fatty ashes” as a single unit.

⁴ tn Heb “he shall bring into from outside to the camp.”

⁵ tn Heb “they shall burn with fire”; KJV “burn in the fire.” Because “to burn with fire” is redundant in contemporary English the present translation simply has “must be burned up.”

⁶ tn Heb “for the life/soul (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) of all flesh, its blood in its life/soul (נֶפֶשׁ) it is.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate leave out “in its life/soul,” which would naturally yield “for the life of all flesh, its blood it is” (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 261, 263). The present translation is something of an oversimplification, but the meaning is basically the same in any case. Cf. NRSV “For the life of every creature – its blood is its life.”

⁷ tn Heb “of all flesh” (also later in this verse). See the note on “every living thing” in v. 11.

⁸ tn For remarks on the “cut off” penalty see the note on v. 4 above.