Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 6:11
And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
11. beside the altar ] on the east part (Lev 1:16, there called the place of the ashes).
put off his garments ] Cp. Eze 44:19 for the reason. For the danger to unconsecrated persons arising from what has been called ‘contagious holiness’ as a feature of early religions see Rob.-Sm. Rel. Sem. 2 pp. 46 ff. See further on Lev 6:18.
put on other garments ] The priestly garments were worn only at the altar and in the tabernacle. On going without the sacred precincts they were removed. Cp. Eze 44:19.
without the camp ] to the place whither parts of the Sin-Offering for ‘the anointed priest’ and for ‘the whole congregation’ were taken (Lev 4:12; Lev 4:21).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 11. And put on other garments] The priests approached the altar in their holiest garments; when carrying the ashes, c., from the altar, they put on other garments, the holy garments being only used in the holy place.
Clean place.] A place where no dead carcasses, dung, or filth of any kind was laid for the ashes were holy, as being the remains of the offerings made by fire unto the Lord.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Put on other garments, because this was no sacred, but a common work.
Unto a clean place, where no dung or filth was laid. See Lev 4:12, and compare Lev 14:40,41.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And he shall put off his garments,…. Those before mentioned, he is said to put on:
and put on other garments; not common garments or lay-habits, what the priests wore when they were not on duty; for, as Ben Gersom says, these were priestly garments, though meaner than the first, or those that were put off: and so Jarchi says, they were worse than they were: it seems as if they were such that were spotted and dirty, and threadbare, almost worn out, and only fit for such sort of work as to carry out ashes: and so Maimonides w observes, that these other garments are not to be understood of common garments; but of such that are meaner in value and esteem, for both are holy garments; and, indeed, nothing belonging to the priestly office was to be performed but with the priestly garments, and they were only to be worn by the priests while in service:
and carry forth the ashes; when these, gathered on a heap, were become large, as Jarchi says, and there was no room for the pile of wood, they carried them out from thence; and this, he observes, was not obligatory every day, but the taking of them up, as in the preceding verse Le 6:10, they were bound to every day: and these they carried
without the camp, unto a clean place; for though they were ashes, yet being ashes of holy things, were not to be laid in an unclean place, or where unclean things were: as the burnt offering was a type of Christ in his sufferings and death, enduring the fire of divine wrath in the room and stead of his people; so the carrying forth the ashes of the burnt offering, and laying them in a clean place, may denote the burial of the body of Christ without the city of Jerusalem, wrapped in a clean linen cloth and laid in a new tomb, wherein no man had been laid, Mt 27:59.
w In Misn. Tamid, c. 5. sect. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(11) And he shall put off his garments.That is, the priest shall change the sacred robes in which he ministered at the altar; for other garments, though less holy, were not common, since the removing of the ashes was still a sacerdotal function. The holy garments were deposited in the cells within the precincts of the sanctuary, till they were required again for the altar service (Eze. 44:19; Ezr. 2:6; Ezr. 2:9; Neh. 7:70). Great care was taken that the place to which the ashes were removed was well sheltered, so that the wind should not blow them about. The priest was not allowed to scatter them, but had to deposit them gently. No stranger was permitted to gather them, or to make profit by the ashes.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
11. Put on other garments This change was required because the priest was to go forth from the consecrated enclosure of the tabernacle and to come in contact with things unsanctified. The ashes must be deposited in a clean place, because they were regarded as a part of the holy offering.
See note on Lev 4:12.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
Ver. 11. Unto a clean place. ] Because they came from the Lord’s holy house. See the contrary commanded concerning the stones and dust of a leprous house. Lev 14:40
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
put off: Lev 16:23, Lev 16:24, Eze 44:19
without: Lev 4:12, Lev 4:21, Lev 14:40, Lev 14:41, Lev 16:27, Heb 13:11-13
Reciprocal: Lev 1:16 – by the place
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 6:11. Other garments Because this was no sacred, but a common work. A clean place Where no dung or filth was laid. The priest himself was to do all this. Gods servants must think nothing below them but sin.