8:25 Then he took the fat (the fatty tail, 7 all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat 8 ) and the right thigh, 9
1 tn Heb “Then he”; the referent (apparently still the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn This translation (“remove its entrails by [cutting off] its tail feathers”) is based on the discussion in J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:169-71, although he translates, “remove its crissum by its feathers.” Others possibilities include “its crop with its contents” (Tg. Onq., cf. NIV, NRSV; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 23) or “its crop with its feathers” (LXX, NASB, RSV; “crop” refers to the enlarged part of a bird’s gullet that serves a pouch for the preliminary maceration of food).
3 tn The pronoun “them” here is feminine singular in Hebrew and refers collectively to the entrails and tail wing which have been removed.
4 tn Again, Aaron probably performed the slaughter and collected the fat parts (v. 16a), but Moses presented it all on the altar (v. 16b; cf. the note on v. 15 above).
5 sn See Lev 3:3-4 for the terminology of fat and kidneys here.
6 tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).
7 tn See Lev 3:9.
8 tn See Lev 8:16.
9 tn See Lev 7:32-34.
10 tn Heb “And the fat from the ox and from the ram.”
11 tn The text here has only the participle “the cover” or “that which covers,” which is elliptical for “the fat which covers the entrails” (see Lev 3:3, 9, 14; 7:3).