The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
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The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
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And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
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And the right thigh shall ye give unto the priest for a heave-offering out of your sacrifices of peace-offerings.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 7:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 7:34 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 9:21 Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
- Numbers 6:20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
- Leviticus 10:14 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.
- Numbers 18:18-19 Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”
- Deuteronomy 18:3 This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.
- 1 Corinthians 9:13-14 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar? Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
- Leviticus 8:25-26 He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh; and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 7:32 And the right shoulder shall ye give…
Lev 7:32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest [for] an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
Ver. 32. See note in previous verse.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He among the sons of Aaron that offereth the…
He among the sons of Aaron that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat,.... Who sprinkled the blood of them upon the altar round about, and burnt the fat upon it, which were rites enjoined to be observed, Lev 3:2,
shall have the right shoulder for his part; his particular part and share, because of his service: Aben Ezra remarks, that the right shoulder was given to him that sprinkled the blood, and the breast to all the priests; and Jarchi observes, that he that was fit for sprinkling the blood, and burning the fat, and went out an unclean person in the time of sprinkling the blood, or burning the fat, had no part in the flesh.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 32. The right shoulder] See Clarke on Ex…
Verse 32. The right shoulder] See Clarke on Ex 29:27.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 32. the right thigh] not ‘shoulder’ as mg. The…
32. the right thigh] not ‘shoulder’ as mg. The plural ‘ye’ indicates the composite character of this section. The right thigh was a further due of the priests, given to the officiating priest, as well as the breast, which was given to Aaron and his sons for ever (Lev_7:34).
The priestly dues seem to have gradually increased. According to 1Sa_2:13 ff. the worshipper was apparently allowed to decide for himself how much to give. The priestly portion assigned in 1Sa_9:24 to Saul as a mark of honour was ‘the thigh, and the fat tail.’ (See note on p. 12.) The legislation of Deut. (Deu_18:3) gives the priest ‘the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.’ But here (cp. Lev_10:14 f.; Exo_29:27 f.) he was still better off with the wave breast and right thigh.
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