Exodus 29:13
Thou shalt take also all the fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and shalt offer a burnt offering upon the altar:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sumes et adipem totum qui operit intestina, et reticulum jecoris, ac duos renes, et adipem qui super eos est, et offeres incensum super altare :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ λήμψῃ πᾶν τὸ στέαρ τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς κοιλίας καὶ τὸν λοβὸν τοῦ ἥπατος καὶ τοὺς δύο νεφροὺς καὶ τὸ στέαρ τὸ ἐπ᾽ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπιθήσεις ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלָֽקַחְתָּ֗ אֶֽת כָּל הַחֵלֶב֮ הַֽמְכַסֶּ֣ה אֶת הַקֶּרֶב֒ וְאֵ֗ת הַיֹּתֶ֨רֶת֙ עַל הַכָּבֵ֔ד וְאֵת֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י הַכְּלָיֹ֔ת וְאֶת הַחֵ֖לֶב אֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲלֵיהֶ֑ן וְהִקְטַרְתָּ֖ הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה
Haydock's commentary
Burnt-offering, (incensum.) To evaporate like incense. (Menochius)
God requires what is most fat and delicious. (Calmet)
The Persians never reserved any of the victims for their idols, except the caul. (Strabo xv.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose Epistle LXIII: To the Church at Vercellæ
104. And for the rest, most dear brethren, consider that Jesus suffered without the gate, and do you go forth out of this earthly city, for your city is Jerusalem which is above. Let your conversation be there, that you may say: “But our conversation is in heaven.” Therefore did Jesus go forth out of the city, that you going out of this world may be above the world. Moses alone, who saw God, had his tabernacle without the camp when he talked with God; and the blood indeed of the victims which were offered for sin, was brought to the altar, but the bodies were burnt without the camp; for no one placed amidst the evil of this world can lay aside sin, nor is his blood accepted of God, except he go forth from the defilement of this body.