Leviticus 6:22-23

6:22 The high priest who succeeds him ¹  from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the Lord. 6:23 Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten.”

Leviticus 10:16

The Problem with the Inaugural Sin Offering

10:16 Later Moses sought diligently for the sin offering male goat, ²  but it had actually been burnt. ³  So he became angry at Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, saying,

Exodus 12:10

12:10 You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning.

Exodus 29:14

29:14 But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up ⁴  outside the camp. ⁵  It is the purification offering. ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “And the anointed priest under him.”

² sn This is the very same male goat offered in Lev 9:15 (cf. the note on Lev 10:1 above).

³ tn Heb “but behold, it had been burnt” (KJV and NASB both similar).

⁴ tn Heb “burn with fire.”

⁵ sn This is to be done because there is no priesthood yet. Once they are installed, then the sin/purification offering is to be eaten by the officiating priests as a sign that the offering was received. But priests could not consume their own sin offering.

⁶ sn There were two kinds of “purification offering,” those made with confession for sin and those made without. The title needs to cover both of them, and if it is called in the traditional way “the sin offering,” that will convey that when people offered it for skin diseases, menstruation, or having babies, they had sinned. That was not the case. Moreover, it is usual to translate the names of the sacrifices by what they do more than what they cover – so peace offering, reparation offering, and purification offering.