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Leviticus 7:30

in Leviticus 7

With his own hands he is to bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

his own hands shall bring the offerings of Jehovah made by fire; the fat with the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before Jehovah.

KJV

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.

This verse in Leviticus 7

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
Wave-offering ... heave-offering - The latter appears to be used (like קרבן qorbân, Lev 1:2) for offerings in general. Waving (a moving to and fro, repeated several times) or heaving (a lifting up once) the offering was a solemn form of dedicating a thing to the use of the sanctuary.

This site's exposition

And the LORD spake unto Moses

on Leviticus 7:28-34

The man who brings a peace offering carries the fat and the breast to the altar in his own hands, so the part of the ritual a worshipper performs himself is the handing over. The breast is waved and goes to Aaron and to all his sons, the right shoulder is heaved and goes to the priest who offered the blood and the fat, and the man who did the work takes the larger single portion. Verse 34 says the LORD took those parts from Israel and gave them to the priests, which makes the priest's food a gift out of the altar rather than a fee collected from the offerer.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

His own hands - After the beast was killed, and the parts of it divided, the priest was to put the parts mentioned into the hands of the offerer. Offerings made by fire - So called, not strictly, as burnt-offerings are, because some parts of these were left for the priest, but more largely, because even these peace-offerings were in part, tho' not wholly, burnt.
His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Jesus Christ is our great peace-offering; for he made himself a sacrifice, not only to atone for sin, and so to save us from the curse, but to purchase a blessing for us, and all good. By our joyfully partaking of the benefits of redemption we feast upon the sacrifice, to signify which the Lord's supper was instituted.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the Lord--In order to show that the sacrifice was voluntary, the offerer was required to bring it with his own hands to the priest.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Wave-offering - See Clarke on Exo 29:27 (note).

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • יָדָ֣יוown hands his

    yadavH30271618 times

  • תְּבִיאֶ֔ינָהthey will bring

    tevieinahH9352568 times

  • אֵ֖ת<obj.>

    ʾetH85310935 times

  • אִשֵּׁ֣י[the] fire offerings of

    ʾisheiH80165 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַחֵ֤לֶבthe fat

    hachelevH245992 times

  • עַל־with

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הֶֽחָזֶה֙the breast

    hechazehH237313 times

  • יְבִיאֶ֔נּוּhe will bring it

    yevienuH9352568 times

  • אֵ֣ת<obj.>

    ʾetH85310935 times

  • הֶחָזֶ֗הthe breast

    hechazehH237313 times

  • לְהָנִ֥יףto wave

    lehanifH513037 times

  • אֹת֛וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • תְּנוּפָ֖הa wave-offering

    tenufahH857330 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 8:12

    For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

    it leads to

    • Mark 12:42–44

      Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.

    • 2 Corinthians 9:7

      Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

    • Exodus 35:29

      So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.

    • Luke 21:1–4

      Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,

    • Exodus 35:21–22

      And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the…

  • Through

    Numbers 6:20

    The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that…

    it leads to

    • Ecclesiastes 9:7

      Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

    • Numbers 5:25

      The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

    • Exodus 29:27–28

      Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination.

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.