all the fat is the LORDS] It is certaine tha the fat of uncleane beasts neither ought, not could be consecrated to the Lord, nor of cleane beasts which might not be used in sacrifice, as Harts, and wild Oxen; and it is certaine, that the fat that is mixed with the flesh of cleane beasts, they might eat, Deuteronomy 32:14. for they were onely forbidden the fat which covereth the inward vitall parts; to wit, the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, and small guts with a continued net or caule, and so might easily be separated from the other flesh. And this fat was so strictly forbidden to the Jewes, that they might in no case eate it, no not if they killed their beast at home, for it is called a law to them in all their dwellings, and joyntly forbidden with bloud, which they might not eate in any case, any where. But this some understand onely of the fat of goats, sheep, and oxen, as Josephus saith in his third Booke of Antiquities, Chap. 10. That cleane beast which might not be offered unto God, they might eate its fat, but the fat of them that might be offered to God, they might not, and that upon paine of death, Leviticus 7:25. But if the beast were killed at home, the fat ought not to be consecrated to the Lord, because it is no where commanded; but as the bloud was to be poured on the ground, so was the fat to be burned with a profane fire, unlesse haply they might use it to make candles of it, or to other profane or common, but honest uses; as is granted, in almost the like case, Leviticus 7:24.