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At the broad bronze altar, a white-linen priest arranges the prescribed pale portions on the low fire: one fat tail, the covering fat, exactly two kidneys, and one small liver appendage. Display them as clean prepared ritual portions on a bronze tray before burning. No whole animal, entrail mass, blood, gore, extra kidneys, or feast food.
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Leviticus 7:3-5

The fat portions on the altar

Offerings and Priestly Portions · Leviticus 7

Story guide: At the broad bronze altar, a white-linen priest arranges the prescribed pale portions on the low fire: one fat tail, the covering fat. The image portrays the fat portions on the altar in Leviticus 7:3-5.

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3And from it he shall present all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails.

4and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

5The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to Yahweh; it is a guilt offering.

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