Today's Favorite Verse: Leviticus 7:30, 32, 34

Today's Favorite Verse: Leviticus 7:30, 32, 34
"His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
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."

I was wondering how they made a wave offering. Did they just wave the offering in the air? I found something that explained it, and the heave offering.

"The Lord declared that two portions of the animal would be the priest’s. The first was the heave offering, which was the upper portion of the back leg. The term heave means, in Hebrew, “to lift off or remove.” This portion was given by the offerer to the priest in payment for his assistance. The “wave breast” (v. 34) was the brisket or lower chest. This choice piece of meat, along with the fat and kidneys, was the Lord’s. The brisket was presented to the Lord through the act of waving. To do this the priest placed the offering in the hands of the offerer and then placed his own hands beneath it. They then moved the brisket in a horizontal motion toward the altar (symbolically transferring to the Lord) and then back again, representing God’s acceptance of the offering and its transference to his servant the priest."
(Old Testament Student Manual Genesis-2 Samuel, "Leviticus 1-10: A Law of Performances and Ordinances, Part 1: Sacrifices and Offerings")

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