In the instructions concerning the Passover and sin offerings, the head of the sacrificial animal carries specific symbolic weight, representing a person's thoughts. This symbolism emerges through a comparison of Exodus 12 and Leviticus 4, which reveals that the head, together with the legs and entrails, functioned as a meaningful set of symbols within these offerings. The legs represented one's walk, meaning how a person conducted his life, while the entrails represented one's emotions, or inward feelings. In the context of a sin offering, these three elements represented the source or execution of the sin that necessitated the offering in the first place. Because they symbolized the sinful thoughts, conduct, and emotions of the offerer, the priest was required to burn the head, along with the legs and entrails, outside the camp, as far from God's presence as was practically possible, whether beyond the boundaries of the wilderness camp during the time of the Tabernacle or across the Kidron Valley during Temple times. By contrast, Exodus 12:9 explicitly commands that the Passover lamb be roasted whole, including its head, legs, and entrails, and forbids that it be boiled or eaten raw. This is a striking divergence from the sin offering, where these same parts were never eaten but entirely consumed by fire away from the camp. The deliberate inclusion of the head, legs, and entrails in the Passover meal demonstrates that this sacrifice was not functioning as a sin offering, since the symbolic parts representing thoughts, conduct, and emotions were treated in a completely different manner. Rather than being purged and rejected because of sin, these parts were consumed by the household as a positive expression of relationship with God. In the Passover context, the thoughts, feelings, and actions symbolized by the head, legs, and entrails were being highlighted for a different reason altogether than sin, namely as an expression of the fellowship God was establishing with His people. This detail reinforces the broader argument that the Passover more closely resembles a peace offering than a sin offering, since the peace offering, like the Passover, represents fellowship, thanksgiving, and communion between God and man rather than payment for transgression. Just as the Passover lamb was prepared with its head, legs, and entrails intact, so God symbolically required the thoughts, actions, and emotions of the Israelites to be wholly consumed by the relationship He was making available to them, rather than being rejected on account of guilt. This symbolic use of the head, along with the legs and entrails, therefore serves as a key piece of evidence distinguishing the meaning of the Passover from the sin offering and aligning it instead with the themes of grace, redemption, and fellowship that run throughout the Passover narrative from Melchizedek's meal with Abraham to Christ's final Passover with His disciples.