8:25 Then he took the fat (the fatty tail, 4 all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat 5 ) and the right thigh, 6
1 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).
2 sn See Lev 3:3-4 for the terminology of fat and kidneys here.
3 tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).
4 tn See Lev 3:9.
5 tn See Lev 8:16.
6 tn See Lev 7:32-34.
7 tn Heb “from.”
8 tn Heb “And the fat from the ox and from the ram.”
9 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).