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Selected Verse: Leviticus 7:8 - King James

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Le 7:8 King James 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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered--All the flesh and the fat of the burnt offerings being consumed, nothing remained to the priest but the skin. It has been thought that this was a patriarchal usage, incorporated with the Mosaic law, and that the right of the sacrificer to the skin of the victim was transmitted from the example of Adam (see on Gen 3:21).
 
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21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,