“And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.”
The priest who offers a burnt offering for anyone may keep the hide of the burnt offering he has offered. The hide of the burnt offering — the animal's skin — belongs to the officiating priest as his compensation for offering the burnt offering. The hide is not burned on the altar; it is not given to the offerer; it goes to the priest. The commercial value of a hide in the ancient world was significant: leather had many practical uses, and the priest's accumulated hides from the burnt offerings would be a meaningful provision. The burnt offering that is entirely consumed on the altar for God still provides for the priest through the one portion that the fire does not consume.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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