OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 3:9

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He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to the LORD; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,

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Verse 9. 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. Busbecq. ep. 3. The tail was not sacrificed in any other species. Menochius.

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