Leviticus 7:30
Good News Translation
bringing it with your own hands as a food offering. You shall bring the fat of the animal with its breast and present it as a special gift to the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Your own hands shall bring the LORD’s offering by fire; you shall bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be raised as an elevation offering before the LORD.

New American Bible
The offerer’s own hands shall carry the oblations for the LORD: the person shall bring the fat together with the brisket, which is to be raised as an elevated offering before the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast. And when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast. And when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest,

own hands

Leviticus 3:3,4,9,14 And they shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings, for an oblation to the Lord: the fat that covereth the entrails, and all the fat that is within, . . .

Psalm 110:3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

John 10:18 No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.

with the breast

Leviticus 8:27 Delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons. Who having lifted them up before the Lord,

Leviticus 9:21 Aaron separated their breasts, and the right shoulders, elevating them before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

Exodus 29:24-28 And thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aaron and of his sons, and shalt sanctify them elevating before the Lord. . . .

Numbers 6:20 And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord: and they being sanctified shall belong to the priest, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the shoulder. After this the Nazarite may drink wine.

Context
The Priests' Portion
29Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him offer therewith a sacrifice also, that is, the libations thereof. 30He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast. And when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest,31Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.…
Cross References
Exodus 29:26
Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram, wherewith Aaron was consecrated, and elevating it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord, and it shall fall to thy share.

Exodus 29:27
And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,

Leviticus 8:29
And he took of the ram of consecration, the breast for his portion, elevating it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.

Leviticus 9:21
Aaron separated their breasts, and the right shoulders, elevating them before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

Leviticus 10:14
The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy children, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

Numbers 6:20
And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord: and they being sanctified shall belong to the priest, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the shoulder. After this the Nazarite may drink wine.

Numbers 8:11
And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the Lord from the children of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry.

Leviticus 7:29
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