^29:22“You are to take from the ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe³⁴ of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh—for it is the ram for consecration³⁵—^29:23and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord. ^29:24You are to put all these³⁶ in Aaron’s hands³⁷ and in his sons’ hands, and you are to wave them as a wave offering³⁸ before the Lord. ^29:25Then you are to take them from their hands and burn³⁹ them⁴⁰ on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the Lord. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^29:26You are to take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration; you are to wave it as a wave offering before the Lord, and it is to be your share. ^29:27You are to sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution,⁴¹ which were waved and lifted up as a contribution from the ram of consecration, from what belongs to Aaron and to his sons.

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Footnotes

34 S. R. Driver suggests that this is the appendix or an appendix, both here and in v. 13 (Exodus, ). “The surplus, the appendage of liver, found with cow, sheep, or goat, but not with humans: Lobus caudatus” ( יֹתֶרֶת).
35 Heb “filling.”
36 Heb “the whole” or “the all.”
37 Heb “palms.”
38 The “wave offering” is תְּנוּפָה (ténufah); it is, of course, cognate with the verb, but an adverbial accusative rather than the direct object. In Lev 23 this seems to be a sacrificial gesture of things that are for the priests—but they present them first to Yahweh and then receive them back from him. So the waving is not side to side, but forward to Yahweh and then back to the priest. Here it is just an induction into that routine, since this is the ordination of the priests and the gifts are not yet theirs. So this will all be burned on the altar.
39 “turn to sweet smoke.”
40 “them” has been supplied.
41 These are the two special priestly offerings: the wave offering (from the verb “to wave”) and the “presentation offering” (older English: heave offering; from a verb “to be high,” in Hiphil meaning “to lift up,” an item separated from the offering, a contribution). The two are then clarified with two corresponding relative clauses containing two Hophals: “which was waved and which was presented.” In making sacrifices, the breast and the thigh belong to the priests.