Leviticus 9:21
Then, doing what Moses/I had commanded, he lifted up in front of Yahweh the breast and the right thigh of those animals, to signify that those two animals completely belonged to Yahweh.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
20He put them on top of the breasts of those animals and carried them to the altar to be burned.
Cross References
Exodus 29:26Then take the meat of the ribs of the second ram that was killed, and lift it up high as an offering to me. But then this part of the animal will be for you to eat.
Leviticus 7:26And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
Isaiah 49:3He said to me, “You will serve my Israeli people, and you will cause people to honor me.”
1 Peter 4:11Those who speak to the congregation should do that as though they are speaking the very words of God. Those who do kind things to others should do it with the strength that God gives them, in order that God may be honored by all this {that all this may honor God} as Jesus Christ enables us to do it. I pray that we will praise God (OR, Jesus) and allow him to rule over us forever. ◄May it be so!/Amen!►
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 9:9-23
8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. 9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar: 10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the Lord commanded Moses. 11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp. 12 And he slew the burnt… Read the whole commentary →