Leviticus 7:32

32 Give the right thigh from your Peace-Offerings as a Contribution-Offering to the priest.

Leviticus 7:32 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 7:32

And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest [for]
an heave offering
Whether of an ox or a cow, a lamb or a goat:

of the sacrifices of your peace offerings;
which were of either of these creatures; the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,

``the right arm from the shoulder to the elbow.''

The breast being the seat of wisdom, and the shoulder of strength, some think denote Christ as the wisdom and power of God unto his people, his priests, who have all their knowledge and strength from him, and who bears them on his heart and on his shoulder.

Leviticus 7:32 In-Context

30 a gift to God in your own hands. Bring the fat with the breast and then wave the breast before God as a Wave-Offering.
31 The priest will burn the fat on the Altar; Aaron and his sons get the breast.
32 Give the right thigh from your Peace-Offerings as a Contribution-Offering to the priest.
33 Give a portion of the right thigh to the son of Aaron who offers the blood and fat of the Peace-Offering as his portion.
34 From the Peace-Offerings of Israel, I'm giving the breast of the Wave-Offering and the thigh of the Contribution-Offering to Aaron the priest and his sons. This is their fixed compensation from the People of Israel."
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