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The Portion of Jehovah
v. 28. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
v. 29. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, he that offereth the sacrifice of his peace-offerings unto the Lord shall bring his oblation unto the Lord of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings, that special gift which belonged to the Lord and was intended to establish the fellowship between Him and the worshiper.
v. 30. His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the parts consecrated to Jehovah, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, in person, not by the hands of a servant or messenger, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before the Lord. This part of the animal is now known as the brisket, and it was offered to the Lord by moving the hands back and forth in a motion of weaving.
v. 31. And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons', the common property of the priestly order.
v. 32. And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest, the officiating priest alone, for an heave-offering of the sacrifices of your peace-offerings. The ceremony of offering here consisted in a simple lifting up of the gift on high.
v. 33. He among the sons of Aaron that offereth the blood of the peace-offerings and the fat shall have the right shoulder for his part.
v. 34. 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 forever from among the children of Israel. As long as the Aaronic priesthood was to endure, so long were the Israelites to make their payment of fees to the priests as here set forth.
v. 35. This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron and of the anointing of his sons, these are the parts of the animals which were set aside for their emoluments, out of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the Lord in the priest's office, these were their fees beginning with the day that Moses inducted them into office;
v. 36. which the Lord commanded to be given them of the children of Israel in the day that he (Moses)anointed them, by a statute forever throughout their generations.
v. 37. This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the trespass-offering, and of the consecrations, of the fillings of the hands which characterized the priest's work, Exo_29:19-28; Lev_6:20, and of the sacrifice of the peace-offerings, the whole law of sacrifice having been given in the preceding Chapters;
v. 38. which the Lord commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that He commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations, both their voluntary gifts and their stated sacrifices, unto the Lord, in the Wilderness of Sinai. All the sacrificial meals of the Old Testament were but weak types of the intimate fellowship with God which we, as the members of the household of God, enjoy in the Gospel, Luk_14:15; Luk_22:30.