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Leviticus 4:8

8 “‘Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull: ^{▼▼ Heb “all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take up from it.”} the fat covering the entrails ^{▼▼ The MT has here the preposition עַל (’al, “on, upon” [i.e., “which covers on the entrails,” as awkward in Hebrew as it is in English]), but Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Targums read אֶת (’et), which is what would be expected (i.e., “which covers the entrails”; cf. Lev 3:3, 9, 14). It may have been mistakenly inserted here under the influence of “on (עַל) the entrails” at the end of the verse.} and all the fat surrounding the entrails, ^{▼▼ Heb “and all the fat on the entrails.” The fat layer that covers the entrails as a whole (i.e., “that covers the entrails”) is different from the fat that surrounds and adheres to the various organs (“on the entrails,” i.e., surrounding them; J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:205–7).}