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acknowledgment, but the blood made atonement for the soul, and so typified Christ's sacrifice much more than the burning of the fat did; to this therefore a greater reverence must be paid, till these types had their accomplishment in the offering up of the body of Christ once for all. The Jews rightly expound this law as forbidding only the blood of the life, as they express it, not that which we call the gravy, for of that they supposed it was lawful to eat.
24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which
is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an
offering made by fire unto the Lord, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or
of beast, in any of your dwellings.
27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that
soul shall be cut off from his people.
28 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the
sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the Lord, shall bring his oblation unto the Lord of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire,
the fat with the breast; it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.
31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall
be Aaron’s and his sons’.
32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for a heave
offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
The priest's share of the peace-offerings is here prescribed. Out of every beast that was offered for a peace-offering the priest that offered it was to have to himself the breast and the right shoulder, Le 7:30-34. Observe here,
(1.) That when the sacrifice was killed the offerer himself must, with his own hands, present God's part of it, that he