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Exodus 29:27

Exodus 29:27

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the wave offering: The wave offering and heave offering are thus distinguished by the Jewish writers. The former, called tenoophah:, from nooph:, to move, toss, was waved horizontally towards the four cardinal points, to signify that He to whom it was consecrated was the Lord of the whole earth; the latter, called teroomah:, from room, to be elevated, was lifted perpendicularly upward and downward, in token of its being devoted to the God of heaven.

the ram of the consecration: Ail milluim:, literally, "the ram of filling;" so called, according to some, because at the consecration of the priests, certain pieces of the sacrifice were put into their hands (); on which account their consecration itself is called "filling their hands" (). Rabbi Solomon gives a different reason for the ram being so called, from malai:, to be full, complete; because the sacrifice completed the consecration, and thereupon the priests were fully invested in their office. Accordingly, the LXX render it by τελειωσις:, consummation.

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