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Leviticus 3:16,17

LEVITICUS—NOTE ON Leviticus 3:16 The fat, being the very best part of the animal, was to be given to the Lord. The blood was reserved for atoning for the life of the Israelites, therefore it too must not be consumed (see notes on 17:11; 17:12).

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See also Leviticus 3:16,17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Rather, as food of an offering made by fire for a sweet savour, shall all the fat be for Yahweh. Our bodily taste and smell furnish figures of the satisfaction with which the Lord accepts the appointe...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE PEACE OFFERING CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The ox (Leviticus 3:1)_ 2. The sheep or goat (Leviticus 3:6) This is the third “sweet savour offering,” and is closely linked with the burnt offering, but it di...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GOATS. The language is the same as in the preceding paragraph, save that the tail is not mentioned. Birds are not included among the victims for peace offerings. They could hardly be divided among the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SWEET SAVOUR.. savour of satisfaction. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, add "unto Jehovah"....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    d. THE PEACE OFFERING 3:1-17 (1) ITS VARIETIES AND RITUAL 3:1-17 TEXT 3:1-17 1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offerings; if he offer of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE SHALL LAY HIS HAND UPON THE HEAD OF IT, AND KILL IT BEFORE THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION: AND THE SONS OF AARON SHALL SPRINKLE THE BLOOD THEREOF UPON THE ALTAR ROUND ABOUT._ No JFB comme...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:16 food (a-13) Lit. 'bread.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEACE OFFERING This form of sacrifice takes its name from a Heb. word meaning a 'requital' or giving of thanks, and is therefore called by some the Thank Offering. It is an animal sacrifice, the c...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SHALL BURN THEM. — That is, the fat pieces which have thus been specified (see Leviticus 4:35), because they constitute the bread of Jehovah; they are to ascend in a sweet-smelling savour to heaven. ...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הִקְטִירָ֥ם הַ כֹּהֵ֖ן הַ מִּזְבֵּ֑חָה לֶ֤

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PEACE OFFERING Leviticus 3:1; Leviticus 7:11; Leviticus 19:5; Leviticus 22:21 IN chapter 3 is given, though not

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PROHIBITION OF FAT AND BLOOD Leviticus 3:16; Leviticus 7:22; Leviticus 17:10 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savour: all th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PEACE-OFFERINGS FROM THE HERD AND THE FLOCKS Leviticus 3:1 The Lord Jesus has been set forth in Leviticus 1:1 as the burned-offering in relation to God; and in Leviticus 2:1, as the meal-offering in...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the peace offering new elements are manifest Here one part was to be burned with fire and thus offered directly to God, while another part was returned from the altar to the worshiper for his own s...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The same observations meet us in those verses, as in Leviticus 3:3.Genesis 41:32....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    16._And the priest shall burn them. _He justly assigns to the priest the main duties of sacrificing, _i.e., _to sprinkle the blood, and to cast the fat into the fire, since he alone was competent to m...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The peace-offering now presents itself to our notice. It is the offering which typifies to us the communion of saints, according to the efficacy of the sacrifice, with God, with the priest who has off...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE PRIEST SHALL BURN THEM UPON THE ALTAR,.... Which shows that not the fat only, but the inwards and the kidneys, were burnt also; so Maimonides says l, that the priest salted the parts, and burn...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Shall burn them_ The parts mentioned, among which the tail is not one, as it was in the sheep, because that in goats is a refuse part. _All the fat is the Lord's_ This is to be limited, 1st, To those...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The meat offering of the herde, 6 of the flocke, 7 either a lambe, 12 or a goat. 1 AND if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if hee offer it of the herd, whether it be a male or fema...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the priest shall burn them upon the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savor; all the fat is the Lord's, that is, all the loose fatty parts that were enumerated in thes...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF GOATS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEACE OFFERING TAKEN FROM THE HERD (vv. 1-5) The peace offering was also a voluntary sacrifice. However, it could either be a male or female, but only an unblemished animal. Of course it speaks a...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-17 Here is a law that they should eat neither fat nor blood. As for the fat, it means the fat of the inwards, the suet. The blood was forbidden for the same reason; because it was God's part of eve...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE PRIEST SHALL BURN THEM, the parts mentioned, among which the tail is not one, as it was in the sheep, because that in goats is a refuse part. ALL THE FAT: this is to be limited, 1. To those beast...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The more closely we contemplate the offerings, the more fully do we see how that no one offering furnishes a complete view of Christ. It is only by putting all together, that anything like a just idea...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 3:16 priest H3548 burn H6999 (H8689) altar H4196 food H3899 fire H801 sweet H5207 aroma H7381 fat...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A PEACE OFFERING OF GOATS (LEVITICUS 3:12). Leviticus 3:12 ‘And if his oblation be a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh, and he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the tent of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Peace offering laws. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron's sons. CONCLUSION: In Christ, God and the sinner meet in peace. God is propitiated and the sinner reconciled; both alike satisfied with...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 3:1. _Oblation,_ is variously rendered; sometimes an offering of any kind, sometimes, as here, a sacrifice of peace-offering. The LXX render it an offering of salutation; when a man had reco...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A sacrifice of peace-offering._ THE PEACE-OFFERING The word peace in the language of the Scriptures, has a shade of meaning not commonly attached to it in ordinary use. With most persons it signifie...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    The Peace Offering of Thanksgiving SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 3:1.—A sacrifice of peace offering. Happy are the truths made evident in this peace sacrifice; delightful to God, blessed for man. Pea...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE PEACE OFFERING. The peace offering, though the instructions here given respecting it precede those relating to the sin offering (for a reason to be stated hereafter), is the last in ord...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:15; 1 Samuel 2:16; 2 Chronicles 7:7; Exodus 29:13; Exodu

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shall burn them — The parts mentioned, among which the tail is not one, as it was in the sheep. because that in goats is a refuse part. All the fat — This is to be limited, To those beasts, which were...

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