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Concise Bible Dictionary
:
“To strip off, to skin.” Applied to skinning the animals for the sacrifices (
Lev. 1:6
6
And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces. (Leviticus 1:6)
;
2 Chron. 29:34
34
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. (2 Chronicles 29:34)
;
2 Chron. 35:11
11
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them. (2 Chronicles 35:11)
). Also used metaphorically for the ill-treatment of the Israelites by their rulers (
Mic. 3:3
3
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. (Micah 3:3)
).