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The Priests’ Portions

28 The Lord told Moses, 29 “Tell the Israelis that whoever brings a peace offering sacrifice to the Lord is to bring his offering to the Lord from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30 He is to bring the offering made by fire with his own hands to the Lord. He is to bring the fat with the breast, since the breast is to be waved as a raised offering to the Lord. 31 The priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons. 32 From the sacrifices of your peace offerings give the right thigh to the priest as a raised offering to the Lord. 33 The descendant of Aaron’s sons who brings the blood and the fat from the peace offering is to keep the right thigh for his own portion, 34 since I’ve taken the breast and the thigh as raised offerings from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the Israelis and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual portion from the Israelis.”

35 This is the consecrated portion for Aaron and his descendants from the offerings made by fire to the Lord, the day they were presented to be priests to the Lord. 36 This is what the Lord had commanded to give them the day he anointed them from among the Israelis—a perpetual portion for their generations.

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Portions of Fellowship Offerings for Priests

28 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 29 “Speak to the Israelites,[b] saying, ‘The one who presents his fellowship offerings’ sacrifice for Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh from his fellowship offerings’ sacrifice. 30 His own hands must bring Yahweh’s offerings made by fire. He must bring the fat in addition to the breast section to wave the breast section as a wave offering before Yahweh, 31 and the priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, and the breast section shall be for Aaron and his[c] sons. 32 And the right upper thigh you[d] must give as a contribution for the priest from your[e] fellowship offerings’ sacrifice. 33 As for the one from Aaron’s sons who presents the blood of the fellowship offerings and the fat, the right upper thigh shall belong to him[f] as his share, 34 because I have taken the wave offering’s breast section and the contribution offering’s upper thigh from the Israelites[g] out of their fellowship offerings’ sacrifices, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his[h] sons from the Israelites[i] as a lasting rule.’”

35 This is Aaron’s allotted portion and his sons’ allotted portion from Yahweh’s offerings made by fire when[j] he brought them forward to serve as priests for Yahweh. 36 This is what Yahweh commanded to give them from the Israelites[k] on the day of his anointing them; it is a lasting statute for their generations.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 7:28 Or “And”
  2. Leviticus 7:29 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Leviticus 7:31 Hebrew “for his”
  4. Leviticus 7:32 Plural
  5. Leviticus 7:32 Plural
  6. Leviticus 7:33 Literally “for him it shall be”
  7. Leviticus 7:34 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  8. Leviticus 7:34 Hebrew “to his”
  9. Leviticus 7:34 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  10. Leviticus 7:35 Literally “in a day”
  11. Leviticus 7:36 Literally “sons/children of Israel”