“Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.”
That is, all the rest of the bull — he must take outside the camp to a place ceremonially clean, where the ashes are thrown, and burn it there in a wood fire on the ash heap. The burning outside the camp in the place where ashes are disposed of is the specific disposal requirement for the high priest's sin offering flesh. Hebrews 13:11–12 cites this verse explicitly: the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the Most Holy Place by the high priest as a sin offering are burned outside the camp — and so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate. The burning of the sin offering outside the camp is the type fulfilled at the crucifixion: Jesus died in the place of disposal, bearing the sin that required burning outside the sacred precinct.
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