Leviticus 7:31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.

Cross References

Exodus 29:26

“You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and raise it as an elevation offering before the Lord, and it shall be your portion.

Leviticus 3:11

Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire to the Lord.

Leviticus 3:16

Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire for a pleasing odor. “All fat is the Lord’s.

Leviticus 3:5

Then Aaron’s sons shall turn these into smoke on the altar, with the burnt offering that is on the wood on the fire, as an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the Lord.

Leviticus 5:13

Thus the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for whichever of these sins you have committed, and you shall be forgiven. As with the grain offering, the rest shall be for the priest.”

Leviticus 6:16

Aaron and his sons shall eat what is left of it; it shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.

Leviticus 6:26

The priest who offers it as a purification offering shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting.

Leviticus 7:34

For I have taken the breast of the elevation offering and the thigh that is offered from the Israelites, from their sacrifices of well-being, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the Israelites.

Leviticus 8:29

Moses took the breast and raised it as an elevation offering before the Lord; it was Moses’s portion of the ram of ordination, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 18:11

This also is yours: I have given to you, together with your sons and daughters, as a perpetual due, whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the elevation offerings of the Israelites; everyone who is clean in your house may eat them.

Numbers 18:18

but their flesh shall be yours, just as the breast that is elevated and as the right thigh are yours.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Do you not know that those who work in the temple service get their food from the temple and those who serve at the altar share in what is sacrificed on the altar?

Deuteronomy 18:3

“This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two jowls, and the stomach.