wring] wring off his head. So Leviticus 5:8. Some thinke it was enough to pinch the Bird in the head to death, and that the neck was not to be wrung off, but that were a kinde of strangling, (whereby the blood was kept in, that should be let out) which was not admitted, either in meats or sacrifices: besides, the Text saith, it was to be burned, (and it seemes) by it selfe; but that could not be, if it were only pinched and not wrung off.
side the Altar] Hbr. upon the wall of the Altar. For it had a wall of boards about it.