32And 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 breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-34)All this relates to the peace-offerings: it is the repetition and explication of what we had before, with various additions. I. The nature and intention of the peace-offerings are here more distinctly opened. They were offered either, 1. In thankfulness for some special mercy received, such as recovery from sickness, preservation in a journey, deliverance at sea, redemption out of captivity, all w…
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