Leviticus 3

Leviticus 3:1

PEace offering] The Italian hath it, A Sacrifice of thankesgiving] Not for an attonement for sinne, but only for a thankesgiving for benefits received, either in generall or particular: See Leviticus 7:12; Leviticus 7:16 O female] The female sex was not admitted in burnt offerings, but only in sacrifices of thanksgiving and in one kind of sacrifice for sin, Leviticus 4:28 Before the Lord]That is to say, before the Tabernacle.

Leviticus 3:2

And kill it] see upon Leviticus 1:5.

Leviticus 3:5

The burnt Sacrifice] Dayly one, or other, for the sacrifices did never begin with the sacrifices of thankesgiving, but with them of expiation or attonment; to shw that no worke of service or homage can be acceptable to God; if the expiation or attonment for sin go not before.

Leviticus 3:11

The food] the sacrifices which were burned with fire, were so called, especially the bloud and the fat, Leviticus 21. 6, 8. and 22. 25. Ezekiel 44:7. Mal. 17, 12. to intimate that God did feed thereon, that is to say he tooke delight therein; and required them as his part of the sacrifices.

Leviticus 3:16

All the fat] Namely that which is solid, and is at the end of the muscles.

Leviticus 3:17

Throughout all] Not only in Gods Temple, but also in your privat houses, where those kinds of fat, being not offered to God, it is very likely were thrown away as the bloud was, and not eaten, Levit. 7. 24.