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Leviticus 23:20

The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before the LORD, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

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Cross-references (10)

Passages linked to Leviticus 23:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 18:4 You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
  • Exodus 29:24 You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
  • Leviticus 7:29-34 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh. The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’ ”
  • Leviticus 8:29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  • Leviticus 10:14-15 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as Yahweh has commanded.”
  • Leviticus 23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
  • Numbers 18:8-12 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you. “This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh.
  • Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
  • 1 Corinthians 9:11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
  • Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

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Explain this verse (9 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, offered to the Lord, and the rest…

That is, offered to the Lord, and the rest should be for the Priests.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 23:20 And the priest shall wave them with…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The priest shall wave them, i.e. some part of…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the priests shall wave them with the bread…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Wave them - Some part of them in the…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 23:20. Wave them — Some part of them,…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Use. None of the peace-offerings were burnt upon the…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 20. The priest shall wave them — Only the…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (20) And the priest shall wave them . .…

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