Exodus 29:31

29:31 “You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook ¹  its meat in a holy place. ² 

Exodus 29:26-27

29:26 You 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. 29:27 You are to sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, ³  which were waved and lifted up as a contribution from the ram of consecration, from what belongs to Aaron and to his sons.

Exodus 29:34

29:34 If any of the meat from the consecration offerings ⁴  or any of the bread is left over ⁵  until morning, then you are to burn up ⁶  what is left over. It must not be eaten, ⁷  because it is holy.

Exodus 29:22

29:22 “You are to take from the ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe ⁸  of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh – for it is the ram for consecration ⁹  –

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¹ tn Or “boil” (see Lev 8:31).

² sn The “holy place” must be in the courtyard of the sanctuary. Lev 8:31 says it is to be cooked at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Here it says it will be eaten there as well. This, then, becomes a communion sacrifice, a peace offering which was a shared meal. Eating a communal meal in a holy place was meant to signify that the worshipers and the priests were at peace with God.

³ sn 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.

⁴ tn Or “ordination offerings” (Heb “fillings”).

⁵ tn The verb in the conditional clause is a Niphal imperfect of יָתַר (yatar); this verb is repeated in the next clause (as a Niphal participle) as the direct object of the verb “you will burn” (a Qal perfect with a vav [ו] consecutive to form the instruction).

⁶ tn Heb “burn with fire.”

⁷ tn The verb is a Niphal imperfect negated. It expresses the prohibition against eating this, but in the passive voice: “it will not be eaten,” or stronger, “it must not be eaten.”

⁸ tn S. R. Driver suggests that this is the appendix or an appendix, both here and in v. 13 (Exodus, 320). “The surplus, the appendage of liver, found with cow, sheep, or goat, but not with humans: Lobus caudatus” (HALOT 453 s.v. יֹתֶרֶת).

⁹ tn Heb “filling.”