Exodus 29:22
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What does Exodus 29:22 mean?
Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the
rump
The fat which was upon it: the sheep in Arabia and about Judea
were remarkable for their large tails; according to Rauwolff
F26, they were half a span thick, and
one and a half broad, and very fat; and so in Africa and Egypt
were rams of large tails often and twenty pounds weight
F1; and Aristotle F2 speaks
of sheep in Syria that had tails a cubit broad; and Herodotus
F3 makes mention of two sorts in
Arabia, one sort have tails three cubits long, which if drawn
upon the ground would ulcerate, wherefore the shepherds make
little carts to bear them upon F4, and the other sort have
tails a cubit broad; and Vartomanus
F5 relates, how in Arabia are fat sheep whose tails weigh eleven, twelve, seventeen, nay, forty four pounds, and of a cubit long:
and the fat
that covereth the inwards, and the caul of the liver,
and
the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them:
(See Gill on Exodus
29:13)
and the
right shoulder;
what was to be done with it is afterwards observed as well as
with the rest:
for it is a
ram of consecration;
or "of fillings" F6; Jarchi says, the Scripture declares
these fillings to be peace offerings, for they minister peace to
the altar, and to him that does the service, and to the owners;
wherefore the breast was necessarily his that did the service for
his portion, and this was Moses, for he ministered in the
fillings, and the rest Aaron and his sons ate, for they were the
owners.
F26 Travels, p. 221.
F1 Leo. African. Descript. Africae, l. 9.
p. 753.
F2 Hist. Animal. l. 8, c. 28.
F3 Thalia sive, l. 3. c. 113.
F4 The same is observed in T. Bab. Sabbat,
fol. 54. 2. & Gloss. in. ib.
F5 Navigat. l. 2. c. 5, 9, 15.
F6 (Myalm) "impletionum", Montanus, Vatablus,
Piscator.
