Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 23:20
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Leviticus23:20
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD, for the priests .
(i. e.) Some part of them in the name of the whole, and so for the two lambs, otherwise they had been too big and too heavy to be waved. So it is a synecdochical expression.
Who had to themselves not onely the breast and shoulder, as in others, which belonged to the Priest; but also the rest which belonged to the offerer, because the whole Congregation being the offerer here, it could neither be distributed to them all, nor given to some without offence or injury to the rest.
Marginal references: Num. 18. 12 Deut. 18. 4.; Heb. [illegible: 1+ letters]o.
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