Numbers 6:20
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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.
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Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.
They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, together with the fat portions of the offerings made by fire, to wave as a wave offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and your children, as the LORD has commanded.”
Ephraim will be like a mighty man,and their hearts will be glad as with wine.Their children will see it and be joyful;their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
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.
but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.
The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
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.