Leviticus 10:15 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Leviticus 10:15
The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
a present (as offered up) · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
shoulder
שׁ֣וֹקShok
H7785
the (lower) leg (as a runner) · noun, common feminine singular construct
wave
הַתְּנוּפָ֗הha.te.nu.Fah
H8573
a brandishing (in threat) · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
breast
וַחֲזֵ֣הva.cha.Zeh
H2373
the breast (as most seen in front) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
bring
יָבִ֔יאוּya.Vi.'u
H935
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
fire
אִשֵּׁ֤י'i.Shei
H801
properly · noun, common masculine plural construct
fat
הַחֲלָבִים֙ha.cha.la.Vim
H2459
fat · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
wave
לְהָנִ֥יףle.ha.Nif
H5130
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down · preposition + verb, hiphil infinitive construct
offering
תְּנוּפָ֖הte.nu.Fah
H8573
a brandishing (in threat) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
before
לִפְנֵ֣יlif.Nei
H6440
the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct
LORD
יְהוָ֑הYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
sons’
וּלְבָנֶ֤יךָu.le.va.Nei.kha
H1121
a son (as a builder of the family name) · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
statute
לְחָקle.chok-
H2706
an enactment · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
ever
עוֹלָ֔םo.Lam
H5769
properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
LORD
יְהוָֽהYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
commanded
צִוָּ֥הtzi.Vah
H6680
(intensively) to constitute · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
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Cross-references
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:12–end
Moses is here directing Aaron to go on with his service after this interruption. Afflictions should rather quicken us to our duty than take us off from it. Observe (Lev 10:12), He spoke unto Aaron and to his sons that were left. The notice taken of their survivorship intimates, 1. That Aaron should take comfort under the loss of two of his sons, from this consideration, that God had graciously spared him the other two, and that he had reason to be thankful for the remnant that was left, and all his sons were not dead, and, in token of his thankfulness to God, to go on cheerfully in his work. 2. That God's sparing them should be an engagement upon them to proceed in his service, and not to fl…
Moses spake unto Aaron, &c.--This was a timely and considerate rehearsal of the laws that regulated the conduct of the priests. Amid the distractions of their family bereavement, Aaron and his surviving sons might have forgotten or overlooked some of their duties.
Adam Clarke on Leviticus 10:14
Wave-breast and heave-shoulder - See Leviticus 7 (note), and Exo 29:27 (note).
John Gill on Leviticus 10:15
The heave shoulder and wave breast shall they bring,.... Not the priests, but the owners to the priests, Leviticus 7:29,
with the offerings made by fire of the fat: upon the inwards, kidneys, and caul of the liver, which was all burnt:
to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, the shoulder was lifted up, and the breast waved to and fro before the Lord of the whole earth, and towards the several parts of it, to show and own his right to all they had, and then they were given to the priests as a token of it:
and it shall be thine, and thy sons with thee; both the shoulder and the breast:
by a statute for ever, to be observed as long as the ceremonial law and Levitical priesthood last…
And it will be for you and your children and your daughters your portion legitimizes forever. The addition: for your daughters, it is not useless, because some things related to the food of the priests, the Scripture forbids women, who can not take them, and, on the other hand, men can. When Moses asked about the kid sacrificed for the sins of the people and did not find it, because he had already been burned, he was angry because the Lord had commanded that those things that had to be offered by the people as a sacrifice for sin had to be eaten by the priests , removing fats and kidneys. Moses was enraged, not against his brother, but against his children (Cf 10,16-9). And I think he did it because it corresponded to his ministry to admonish them. Aaron answered him, saying: If today they offered their sacrifices for sin and their burnt offerings before the Lord and such things happened to me, and I will eat today the victim for sin, will this please the Lord? Moses heard it and liked it (Lv 10,19.20). It seems that Aaron says that, on the same day that the children of Israel had first offered the sacrifice for their sin, this sacrifice should not have been eaten by the Israelites, but burned in its entirety, without making this a rule. for the other sacrifices, because later the priests ate sacrifices for sins. But, since this was offered for the first time on the first day, it is necessary to think that the priest Aaron said this by divine inspiration, so that later the priests could observe what the Lord had commanded Moses; and what Aaron said, as inspired by God, Moses approved. What happened, then, with the other sacrifices of that day, that is, with the ram and with the bull, which, as we said, should also be considered as offered by sin? Or is it that there is no problem about the bull, since the sacrifice had to be made in such a way that part of his blood was introduced, as ordered, to touch with it the horns of the altar of incense, and it was natural that will the whole animal burn? (Cf Lv 4,17-20) And what was to be done with the ram? As Moses asked first for the kid, should we also apply to the ram what was said to him about the kid, about which he had to ask, as he had been commanded, if the priest's answer had not satisfied him? About the bull, what would he ask, since the sacrifice had been made according to the law, which God had…
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Dictionary and topics
Priest — The Heb. kohen, Gr. hierus, Lat. sacerdos, always denote one who offers sacrifices. At first every man was his own priest, and presented his own sacrifices before God. Afterwards that office devolved…
Wave Offering — This rite, together with that of “heaving” or “raising” the offering was an inseparable accompaniment of peace offerings. In such the right shoulder, considered the choicest part of the victim, was…
Wave offerings — Parts of peace-offerings were so called, because they were waved by the priests (Ex. 29:24, 26, 27; Lev. 7:20-34; 8:27; 9:21; 10:14, 15, etc.), in token of a solemn special presentation to God. They…
Fat · Offered in sacrifice — Offered in sacrifice
Heave-Offering · To be eaten in a clean place — To be eaten in a clean place
Wave Offering · Was given to the priest as his due — Was given to the priest as his due
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
John Calvin on Leviticus 10:8–end
Leviticus 10:8-11
8. And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
8. Loquutus est etiam Jehova ad Aharon, dicendo:
9. Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
9. Vinum et siceram non bibes tu et filii tui tecum, quando intrabitis in tabernaculum conventionis, ne moriamini: statutum perpetuum est in generationibus vestris:
10. And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
10. Et ut discernatis inter sanctum et profanum, et inter immundum et mundum.
11. And that ye may teach the children of Israel all th…
After the directions occasioned by this judgment of God, Moses reminded Aaron and his sons of the general laws concerning the consumption of the priests' portions of the sacrifices, and their relation to the existing circumstances: first of all (Lev 10:12, Lev 10:13), of the law relating to the eating of the meat-offering, which belonged to the priests after the azcarah had been lifted off (Lev 2:3; Lev 6:9-11), and then (Lev 10:14, Lev 10:15) of that relating to the wave-breast and heave-leg (Lev 7:32-34). By the minchah in Lev 10:12 we are to understand the meal and oil, which were offered with the burnt-offering of the nation (Lev 9:4 and Lev 9:7); and by the אשּׁים in Lev 10:12 and Lev 1…
The priest’s share of the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering was “most holy” (see 2:3; 6:29; 7:6). Only the males in the priest’s family could eat it, and it had to be consumed in a holy place (that is, the Tabernacle court). The priest’s portion of the peace offering, though, was considered simply “holy.” It could be eaten by any family member in any clean place (22:10-13).
Rashi on Leviticus 10:15
על אשי החלבים WITH THE FIRE OFFERINGS OF THE FAT — From this we may learn that the fat-portions were beneath the others at the time of waving (Sifra, Shemini, Chapter 1 11). And as for the exposition of the texts in such a manner that they shall not contradict each other I have already explained the three of them in the section צו את אהרן (Leviticus 7:30; see Rashi thereon).
