Exodus 29:25-28

Contemporary English Version

²⁵After this, put the meat and bread on the altar and send them up in smoke with a smell that pleases me.

²⁶You may eat the choice ribs from this second ram, but you must first lift them up^[a] to show that this meat is dedicated to me.

^27-28In the future, when anyone from Israel offers the ribs and a hind leg of a ram either to ordain a priest or to ask for my blessing, the meat belongs to me, but it may be eaten by the priests. This law will never change.

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Footnotes

29.26 lift it all up: Or “wave it all.”

Exodus 29:25-27

New International Version

²⁵Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord, a food offering presented to the Lord.^(A) ²⁶After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron’s ordination, wave it before the Lord as a wave offering, and it will be your share.^(B)

²⁷“Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons:^(C) the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented.

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