Leviticus 4:8

4:8 “‘Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull: ¹  the fat covering the entrails ²  and all the fat surrounding the entrails, ³ 

Leviticus 8:17

8:17 but the rest of the bull – its hide, its flesh, and its dung – he completely burned up ⁴  outside the camp just as the Lord had commanded Moses. ⁵ 

[4:8]  ¹ tn Heb “all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take up from it.”

[4:8]  ² tc 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.

[4:8]  ³ tn 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).

[8:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “he burned with fire,” an expression which is sometimes redundant in English, but here means “burned up,” “burned up entirely.”

[8:17]  ⁵ sn See Lev 4:11-12, 21; 6:30 [23 HT].