Leviticus 7:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Which is by the flanks; or, and that which is, &c. So this is another fat, as may seem probable from the mention of the several parts, the kidneys and the flanks. For it seems preposterous after a plain and exact description of the very particular place of the fat, the kidneys, to add another more dark and doubtful description of it from the flanks. And the Hebrew writers, whose common practice of these things makes them the best interpreters of it, make these divers kinds or parts of fat. And so there is only an ellipsis of the conjunction copulative, which is Psalms 133:3, and in many other places, as hath been already showed.

Leviticus 7:4

4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away: