Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
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Gill's Exposition
Ye eat the fat,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it, "the milk"; the words for fat and milk differ only in the points; and this was not unlawful, for
who feedeth a…
Adam Clarke
Ye eat the fat - I think החלב hacheleb should be translated the milk, and so most of the Versions understand it. Or they lived on the fat sheep, and took the wool of all.
"The priests," says Calmet,…
The prophecy of this chapter is not dated, nor any of those that follow it, till ch. 40. It is most probable that it was delivered after the completing of Jerusalem's destruction, when it would be…
Cambridge Bible
Ye eat the fat LXX. the milk(the consonants are the same). Cf. Isa 7:22; Zec 11:16.
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