Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 1:6

6 And he shall slay the burnt-offering , and cut it into his pieces .

Partly for decency, because the sacrifices being as it were Gods food and feast, it was incongruous to offer to God that which men refused to eat; and partly to signify that the great thing which God required and regarded in men was not their outward appearance, but their inside, and that as he doth see all mens insides, Heb. 4. 13. so he will one day make them visible to others.

To wit, the head, and [illegible: 1+ letters]at, and inwards and legs, ver. 8, 9.