Numbers 6:20 “The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. Th…”

Numbers 6:20

The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.

World English Bible

and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.

American Standard Version

and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah; this is holy for the priest, together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the Priest shall shake them to and from before the Lord: this is an holy thing for the Priest besides the shaken breast, and besides the heaue shoulder: so afterwarde the Nazarite may drinke wine.

Darby Translation

And the priest shall wave them as wave-offering before Jehovah; it is holy for the priest, with the breast of the wave-offering and with the shoulder of the heave-offering; and afterwards the Nazarite may drink wine.

Young's Literal Translation

and the priest hath waved them, a wave-offering before Jehovah; it [is] holy to the priest, besides the breast of the wave-offering, and besides the leg of the heave-offering; and afterwards doth the Nazarite drink wine.

Bible in Basic English

Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

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Cross references

“the priest shall”

Numbers 5:25 Leviticus 9:21 Leviticus 10:15 Leviticus 23:11 Exodus 29:27 Exodus 29:28

Numbers 5:25 · BSB

The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

Leviticus 9:21 · BSB

but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.

Leviticus 10:15 · BSB

They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, together with the fat portions of the food offerings, to wave as a wave offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and…

Leviticus 23:11 · BSB

And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

Exodus 29:27 · BSB

Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination.

Exodus 29:28 · BSB

This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is the heave offering the Israelites will make to the LORD from their peace offerings.

“with the wave”

Numbers 18:18 Leviticus 7:31 Leviticus 7:34

Numbers 18:18 · BSB

And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.

Leviticus 7:31 · BSB

The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

Leviticus 7:34 · BSB

I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons…

“and after”

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Isaiah 25:6 Isaiah 35:10 Isaiah 53:10–12 Zechariah 9:15 Zechariah 9:17

Ecclesiastes 9:7 · BSB

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

Isaiah 25:6 · BSB

On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

Isaiah 35:10 · BSB

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Isaiah 53:10–12 · BSB

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His h…

Zechariah 9:15 · BSB

The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.

Zechariah 9:17 · BSB

How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.

21This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”

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