Wave-offering in Biblical History

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What is a Wave-offering?
WAVE-OF'FERING
, a peculiar feature of the rite of peace-offering, the right shoulder of the victim, considered the choicest piece, being "heaved," and eaten only by the priests, while the breast was "waved," and eaten by the worshippers. On the second day of the Passover a sheaf of corn was waved together with an unblemished lamb of the first year. From this ceremony the days were to be counted till Pentecost, on which feast the first-fruits of the ripe corn and two lambs of the first year were waved. Ex 29:24, Gen 1:27; Lev 7:30, Num 32:34; Ezr 8:27; Dan 9:21; Lev 10:14-15; Acts 23:10, Matt 23:15, Gen 23:20; Num 6:20; Matt 18:11, Matt 18:18, Num 18:26-29.

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