Leviticus 7:8
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. 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.
The officiating priest was to have for himself the skin or hide of the burnt offering which he had offered. The burnt offering is one of five kinds of offerings — burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass — whose purpose and manner of offering are to be clearly defined and compared. The instruction belongs to the first seven chapters of Leviticus, which set forth every individual offering brought in faith during the year as part of the priests' daily ministration in the earthly sanctuary.
It belongs to the ceremonial law instituted in consequence of sin, distinct from the moral law. As part of the regulation of the Levitical priesthood and its offerings, with special instruction and direction concerning the burnt offering, it shows God's hatred of sin and that sin demanded its penalty. A person continued to bear his iniquity until he presented and slew his offering; the priest then made atonement with its blood so the person was forgiven and free, the blood conveying the iniquity to the sanctuary when applied there.
Together with the daily offering, these individual offerings transferred in figure the penitent's sins to the sanctuary through the blood of the sacrifice or the person of the priest; when the blood was sprinkled upon the altar before the ark, the forgiven sins were left there in figure and accumulated through the year until the cleansing on the tenth day of the seventh month. The details of these laws about sacrifices each had meaning and find their fuller and symbolic meaning in the sacrifice, life, and work of Jesus Christ, as a shadow of the great substance in Him. The yearly cycle of sacrifices and priestly duties in the sanctuary service typified Christ's ministry as priest in the heavenly sanctuary. The skin represents the offerer's past life as seen by others before turning to God, which he may place in the hands of Christ as his Priest, who becomes responsible for its failures.