Midrasch zu Wajikra 4:11

1) (Vayikra 4:11): "And the skin of the bullock and all its flesh, with its head and with its legs and its innards and its dung. (Vayikra 4:12): And he shall take the entire bullock (outside the camp)": We are hereby taught that he takes it out entirely intact.

2) I might think that he takes it out whole and burns it whole; it is, therefore, written: "its head and its legs." Just as head and legs mentioned elsewhere (in respect to a burnt-offering) have been severed (see Vayikra 1:6), so, here, they must be severed (before they are burned). — But (why not say): Just as head and legs there have been flayed, so, here, too, they must be flayed! It is, therefore, written (to negate this): "and its innards and its dung" (Just as the dung is in its innards, so, the flesh must be "in its innards, i.e., attached to the skin, unflayed.)

3) "And he shall take the entire bullock outside the camp": Outside the three camps, or outside one camp? When it is written in respect to the congregation (Vayikra 1:21): "And he shall take the bullock outside the camp" — let this ("outside the camp") not be stated, for it is already written (Vayikra 1:21): "and he shall burn it as he burned the first bullock." Why, then, is "outside the camp" stated? To add a second camp.

4) And when it is written in respect to the ashes (Vayikra 6:4): "outside the camp," let this not be stated, for it is already written (here): "to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out." If so, why is "outside the camp" written? To add a third camp.

7) "and they shall burn in fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung": "skin, flesh, and dung" is written here, and it is written elsewhere (Vayikra 4:11), re the anointed Cohein). Just as there, (the animal is first cut into pieces, here, too.

[Another interpretation] (of Lev. 13:2): WHEN ANYONE HAS ON THE SKIN OF HIS FLESH < A SWELLING OR A SORE OR A BRIGHT SPOT >. Why do the plagues come?⁶⁷Tanh., Lev. 4:11; cf. Lev. R. 17:3. Because of harlotry. And so you find in Jerusalem, that because they were absorbed in harlotry, they were afflicted with leprosy. What is written there (in Is. 3:16)? MOREOVER, THE LORD SAID: BECAUSE < THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION > ARE HAUGHTY, < AND WALK WITH EXTENDED NECK AND ROVING EYES >…. Then it says (in vs. 17): THEREFORE THE LORD WILL SMITE WITH SORES (SPH) THE SCALPS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION. [SMITE WITH SORES (SPH)⁶⁸The Buber text has misspelled SPH by rendering the S sound with a samekh in place of the biblical sin. must mean "with leprosy," since it is stated (with reference to leprosy in Lev. 13:2): A SWELLING OR A SORE (rt.: SPH).]⁶⁹Here the S represents a samekh. It also says (in Lev. 14:56): FOR A SWELLING AND FOR A SORE.