Exodus 29:27-28 - Exposition

A short digression is here made, from this particular offering, to all future offerings for consecration. For the future both the breast and the right shoulder are to belong to the priests. The shoulder, moreover, is to be "heaved," and only the breast "waved; …. heaving" being a single lifting up of the offering towards heaven, while" waving" was a repeated movement in a horizontal direction. Wave and heave offerings are always connected with the portions of the priests, or with things dedicated to God's service. (See Exodus 25:2 ; Exodus 35:22 , Exodus 35:24 ; Exodus 38:24 , Exodus 38:29 ; Le 7:30-34; Numbers 18:11 , Numbers 18:19 , Numbers 18:24 , etc.)