Reference: Liver
Hastings
1. In the great majority of cases where the liver is mentioned, it is in connexion with the law of sacrifice as prescribed in Priestly Narrative (Ex 29:13,22; Le 3:4,10,16 etc.), and always in association with the caul (y
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"You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar.
"You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),
and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
'The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire for a soothing aroma; all fat is the LORD'S.
"His arrows surround me Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, So he does not know that it will cost him his life.
My eyes fail because of tears, My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is poured out on the earth Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, When little ones and infants faint In the streets of the city.
"For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver.