Leviticus 4:11 Second Temple Literature: On the Birth

וְאֶת־ע֤וֹר הַפָּר֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־בְּשָׂר֔וֹ עַל־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ וְעַל־כְּרָעָ֑יו וְקִרְבּ֖וֹ וּפִרְשֽׁוֹ׃

But the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung,

On the Birth of Abel and the Sacrifices Offered by him and by his Brother Cain

§ 137. Nothing save the excrement and hide. Philo’s memory has played him false. There is no such exception ordered with regard to the ὁλοκαύτωμα. He is perhaps thinking of the directions about the “sin offering” in Lev. 4:11, where, however, the hide and excrement are only mentioned with the head, legs, etc., to show that the whole animal must be burnt.
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