Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
By a statute
General references
Bible References
The wave
Leviticus 7:30
With his own hands he is to bring offerings by fire to the Lord; he shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be presented as a wave offering before the Lord.
Leviticus 10:14
But the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you; for the breast and the thigh are your portion and your sons’ portion, given out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the Israelites.
Exodus 29:28
It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their due portion from the Israelites forever, for it is a heave offering. It shall be a heave offering to the Lord from the Israelites from the sacrifices of their peace offerings.
Numbers 18:18
Their meat shall be yours, like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.
Deuteronomy 18:3
“Now this shall be the priests’ portion from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.
By a statute
Leviticus 3:17
It is a permanent statute for your generations wherever you may be, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’”
Exodus 29:9
And you shall wrap them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and put the [ornamental] caps on them; and the priest’s office shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
General references
Leviticus 7:32
You shall give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
Leviticus 8:29
Moses also took the breast and presented it as a wave offering before the Lord; it was Moses’ portion of the ram of consecration (ordination), just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Leviticus 10:14
But the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you; for the breast and the thigh are your portion and your sons’ portion, given out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the Israelites.
Numbers 18:18
Their meat shall be yours, like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.