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Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 3:17

Eat neither fat nor blood. These are forbidden to be eaten, as belonging to God. The fat, that is, the internal fat, is his portion in the common feast of the peace offering, and the blood is presented to him in all the animal sacrifices, as the material vehicle of life (see Le Leviticus 7:22-27 ). The remaining regulations as to the various sorts of the peace offerings, the priests' portions of them, and the festive meal on the sacrifices, are given in Le Leviticus 7:11-34 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 3:17

The guardian of sacred feeling. No little stress is laid on the prohibition of two things—the fat and the blood of slain animals: it was to be "a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings." The fat thus interdicted was that which was offered in sacrifice ( Leviticus 3:3 , Leviticus 3:4 , Leviticus 3:9 , Leviticus 3:10 ), not that which was interlined with the lean ( Nehemiah 8:10 ). We may look at— I. THE MEANING OF THIS PROHIBITION IN ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 3:12

See Leviticus 1:10 note. Birds were not accepted as peace-offerings, most probably because they were, by themselves, insufficient to make up a sacrificial meal. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 3:16

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 appointed symbols of the true worship of the heart. All that was sent up in the fire of the altar, including the parts of the sin-offering Leviticus 4:31, as well as the burnt-offering (Leviticus 1:9, etc.), was accepted for “a sweet savour”: but the word food may here have a special fitness in its... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 3:17

Blood - See Leviticus 17:11 note.Throughout all your dwellings - The suet was neither to be eaten in sacrificial meals in the sanctuary, nor in ordinary meals in private houses. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 3:9-11

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 acceptance of it, and delight in it; as men delight in their food. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 3:16

Leviticus 3:16. 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 beasts which were offered or offerable in sacrifice, as it is explained, Leviticus 7:23; Leviticus 7:25. 2d, To that kind of fat which is above mentioned, and required to be offered, which was separated, or easily separable from the flesh: for the fat which was here and there... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 3:17

Leviticus 3:17. All your dwellings Not only at or near the tabernacle, not only of those beasts which you actually sacrifice, but also in your several dwellings, and of all that kind of beasts. Fat Was forbidden, 1st, To preserve the reverence of the holy rites and sacrifices. 2d, That they may be taught hereby to acknowledge God as their Lord, and the Lord of all the creatures, who might reserve what he pleased to himself. 3d, To exercise them in obedience to God, and self-denial and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 3:1-17

The peace offering (3:1-17)Among Israelites in general, the most popular of the offerings was the peace offering (GNB: fellowship offering). The characteristic feature of this offering was the feast for the worshippers that followed the sacrifice (1 Samuel 9:12-13). First, however, the animal was sacrificed with blood ritual the same as that of the burnt offering. Then the Lord’s portion, consisting of the richest and most vital parts of the animal, was burnt upon the altar, probably to... read more

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