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“The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged with fat\u2014 the blood of lambs and he-goats, the kidney fat of rams. For the LORD holds a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom” (6).<\/span><\/p>\n

From the traditional medieval perspective, sacrifice (<\/span>zevach<\/span><\/i>) and slaughter (<\/span>tevach<\/span><\/i>) are interchangeable, both carried out by the blood-sated sword with which the sacrifice or slaughter (of the lambs, goats, and rams) is carried out. Malbim,* again, manages to draw meaningful distinctions among these otherwise synonymous elements.<\/span><\/p>\n

God will wreak His vengeance on Edom because it destroyed His Temple, but His action against Bozrah [a city on Edom] will come in order to get them to recognize Him, as implied later in \u201cWho comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, in this majestic attire\u201d (63:1). Accordingly, he said here that God has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in Edom because sacrifice is for the purpose of providing food while slaughter is a means of vengeance. The slaughter for vengeance will occur in the Land of Edom and in Bozrah there will be a great feast of sacrifice producing enough pleasure to offset the false ideas and to set the table for faith and [true] wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, the slaughter is linked to the great sword engorged by the blood of the lambs and he-goats, to whom the heroes and nobility are compared, and the sacrifice, whose purpose is not vengeance but providing edible delights, is linked with the kidney fat of rams. He used the simile of kidney fat because [the kidneys] provided erroneous advice, so [their removal] will restore them to the true faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bear in mind that in the ancient world there was a belief that wisdom reposed in the kidneys and that one of God\u2019s epithets is \u201cwho tests the kidneys and the heart\u201d (Jer. 11:20).<\/span><\/p>\n

*For the significance of Malbim\u2019s commentary to the Book of Isaiah,<\/span> see our introduction to chapter 1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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