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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Leviticus 3:9

The whole rump - The whole fat tail: i. e., the tail of the kind of sheep well known in the East, and often weighing 15 lbs. and even as much as 50 lbs., when the sheep has been increased by artificial fattening.

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See also Leviticus 3:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 3:9. _THE WHOLE RUMP, IT SHALL HE TAKE OFF HARD BY THE_ _BACKBONE_] To what has already been said on the _tails_ of the eastern sheep, in the note on Exodus 29:22, we may add the foll...

  • 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

    SHEEP.Flock (Leviticus 3:6) includes either sheep or goats, but note that by implication only lambs, and not full-grown sheep, are to be offered. The ritual is the same as for cattle, save that the fa...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OFFERING MADE BY FIRE. Hebrew. _isseh_. App-43. WHOLE RUMP. the fat tail entire. Leviticus 7:3; Leviticus 8:25; Leviticus 9:19; Ex

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The fat tail here reserved for sacrifice was regarded as a delicacy, and set before Saul. In 1 Samuel 9:24 for -that which was upon it" should be read -the fat tail"; see Driver _in loc._, and note on...

  • 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 THE TWO KIDNEYS, AND THE FAT THAT IS ON THEM, WHICH IS BY THE FLANKS, AND THE CAUL ABOVE THE LIVER, WITH THE KIDNEYS, IT SHALL HE TAKE AWAY._ THE TWO KIDNEYS ... OF THE FLOCK ... THE WHOLE RUMP,...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WHOLE RUMP] RV 'the fat tail entire': see on Exodus 29:22....

  • 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

    THE WHOLE RUMP. — Better, _the whole fat tail_ (so also Exodus 29:22; Leviticus 7:3; Leviticus 8:25; Leviticus 9:19). The sheep of Syria an

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הִקְרִ֨יב מִ זֶּ֣בַח הַ שְּׁלָמִים֮ אִשֶּׁ

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering (d) an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, [and] the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Whole rump. Septuagint, "the loin without blemish." The tail of the Arabian sheep is extremely large and fat, weighing eight or ten pounds; so that it is necessary to support it on a vehicle. (Busbec...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    As the tails of the sheep are very large and fat, in those eastern countries, and were considered as a very choice part of the animal, they were ordered to be sacrificed on the altar. Exodus 29:22....

  • 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 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 HE SHALL OFFER OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE PEACE OFFERING,.... That is, the priest, Aaron, or one of his two sons: AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE UNTO THE LORD; that part of it which was to be burnt with f...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, [and] the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that cov...

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

    Leviticus 3:9 ; LEVITICUS 3:11. _The rump_ Which in sheep is fat and sweet, and in these countries was much larger and better than in ours. _The food of the offering _ So called, to denote God's accep...

  • 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 he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace-offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord, that portion of the sacrificial victim burned upon the altar being known as the food of Jehovah and si...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF THE FLOCK...

  • 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 FAT THEREOF, AND THE WHOLE RUMP, which in sheep is fat and sweet, and in these parts was; cry much larger and better than ours, as is agreed both by ancient and modern writers, and therefore was f...

  • 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 3:9 offer H7126 (H8689) sacrifice H2077 offering H8002 fire H801 LORD H3068 fat H2459 whole H8549 tail...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A PEACE OFFERING OF SHEEP (LEVITICUS 3:6). Leviticus 3:6 ‘And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Yahweh be of the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. The sa...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 3:1__ The PEACE OFFERING (see also Leviticus 7:11) expresses peace between an offerer and the

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 3:6 Almost the same instructions are given here for the offering of a sheep or a goat. ⇐...

  • 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

    Exodus 29:22; Isaiah 53:10; Leviticus 7:3; Leviticus 8:25; Leviticus

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The rump — Which in sheep is fat, and sweet, and in these parts was very much larger and better than ours....

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