flock, which showed an attitude of faith and respect. But it must be remembered that the text itself is very ambiguous and brief. We must be careful of reading too much into these early accounts. ■ NKJV “and their fat” NRSV “their fat portions” TEV “the best parts of it” NJB “and some of their fat” SEPT “even some of the fattest of them” JPSOA “the choicest” NET “even the fattest of them” Apparently here and in later Judaism, the intestines and the fat connected to it were what was offered on the