Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community. The burning of the community sin offering bull outside the camp repeats the disposal of the high priest's sin offering bull from verse 12. The consistent outside-the-camp burning for both the high priest's personal failure and the community's corporate failure communicates the consistent nature of sin's required disposal: sin cannot remain within the sacred precinct; it must be taken out, removed, burned in the place of disposal. Hebrews 13:13 says let us go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore — the outside-the-camp burning is the spatial theology that the writer of Hebrews sees fulfilled in the crucifixion.

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