18 Since its blood was not taken into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the goat in the sanctuary area, as I commanded."
18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.
18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."
18 Since its blood was not taken into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the goat in the Sanctuary as I commanded."
18 See! Its blood was not brought inside the holy place; indeed you should have eaten it in a holy place, as I commanded."
18 Since the animal's blood was not brought into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the meat in the sacred area as I ordered you."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 10:18
Commentary on Leviticus 10:12-20
(Read Leviticus 10:12-20)
Afflictions should rather quicken us to our duty, than take us from it. But our unfitness for duty, when it is natural and not sinful, will have great allowances made for it; God will have mercy, and not sacrifice. Let us profit by the solemn warning this history conveys. When professing worshippers come with zeal without knowledge, carnal affections, earthly, light, vain, trifling thoughts, the devices of will-worship, instead of the offering of soul and spirit; then the incense is kindled by a flame which never came down from heaven, which the Spirit of a holy God never sent within their hearts.