Exodus 29:28

Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall fall to Aarons share and his sons' by a perpetual right from the children of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of their peace victims which they offer to the Lord.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.

In Context

27And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,

29And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons shall have after him, that they may be anointed, and their hands consecrated to it.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:27And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,

Leviticus 7:11This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is offered to the Lord.

Leviticus 10:15Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar, and they belong to thee and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded.

Numbers 5:10And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.

Numbers 15:19And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord,

Numbers 18:8And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 29:2-38

The Consecration of the Priests. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, 2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. 3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. 4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the… Read the whole commentary →

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