Exodus 29:26 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

Take the breast meat from the ram used in Aaron's ordination ceremony, and lift it up as a wave offering before the LORD. This portion will belong to you.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

God is instructing Moses to take part of the sacrificial ram from Aaron's ordination ceremony as his own portion after offering it to the LORD.

📚 Historical Context

This verse is part of God's detailed instructions to Moses about consecrating Aaron and his sons as priests for Israel. The wave offering was a ritual where the priest would lift the sacrifice toward heaven and then bring it back, symbolically giving it to God and receiving it back. This established the principle that priests would receive portions of certain sacrifices as their provision.

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This is the law concerning the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination ceremonies, and the fellowship offerings.

Leviticus 8:18

Then Moses brought the ram that would be sacrificed as a burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the ram's head.

Leviticus 8:20

Moses cut the ram into pieces, then burned the head, the pieces, and the fat as an offering.

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