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6:24-30 The Sin Offering. Cf. 4:1-5:13. Chapter 4 has already indicated that the meat of the sin offering is to be burned up when its blood has been taken into the Holy Place (4:3-21; cf. 6:30). These verses explain that the remaining meat of other sin offerings (4:22-35) is to be eaten by holy people (priests) in a holy place (6:26, 29). blood . . . on a garment . . . earthenware vessel . . . bronze vessel. Most interpreters believe that the blood itself was considered holy. Thus, the stipulations of vv. 27-28 are to ensure that holy blood does not leave the holy place.