Leviticus 7:31

Good News Translation

The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall belong to the priests.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aharon's and his sons'.

King James Version
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Lexham English Bible
and the priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, and the breast section shall be for Aaron and his sons.

New Century Version
Then the priest must burn the fat on the altar, but the breast of the animal will belong to Aaron and the priests.

New English Translation
and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.

Amplified Bible
'The priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.

New American Standard Bible
'And the priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and to his sons.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Priest shall burne the fatte vpon the Altar, and the breast shall be Aarons and his sonnes.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.

Contemporary English Version
A priest from Aaron's family will then send the fat up in smoke, but the ribs belong to the priests.

Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen is to make the fat go up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aharon and his descendants.

Darby Translation
And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar; and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Easy-to-Read Version
The priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast of the animal will belong to Aaron and his sons.

English Standard Version
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.

George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.

Christian Standard Bible®
The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

Literal Translation
And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar as incense; and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prest shall burne the fat vpon the altare, and the brest shalbe Aarons and his sonnes.

American Standard Version
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Bible in Basic English
And the fat is to be burned by the priest on the altar, but the breast is for Aaron and his sons.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shall burne the fat vpon the aulter, and the brest shalbe Aarons and his sonnes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall make the fat smoke upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall burne the fat vpon the Altar: but the brest shalbe Aarons and his sonnes.

English Revised Version
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Berean Standard Bible
The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
which schal brenne the ynnere fatnesse on the auter; sotheli the brest schal be Aarons and hise sones;

Young's Literal Translation
`And the priest hath made perfume with the fat on the altar, and the breast hath been Aaron's and his sons;

Update Bible Version
And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

World English Bible
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

New King James Version
And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

New Living Translation
Then the priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants.

New Life Bible
The religious leader will burn the fat on the altar. But the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall the priest make a perfume with the fat at the altar, - and the breast shall be for Aaron and for his sons.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

Revised Standard Version
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The priest shall offer up the fat in smoke on the altar, but the breast shall belong to Aaron and his sons.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ The following are the regulations for the fellowship offerings presented to the Lord . ¹² If you make this offering as a thanksgiving offering to God, you shall present, together with the animal to be sacrificed, an offering of bread made without yeast: either thick loaves made of flour mixed with olive oil or thin cakes brushed with olive oil or cakes made of flour mixed with olive oil. ¹³ In addition, you shall offer loaves of bread baked with yeast. ¹⁴ You shall present one part of each kind of bread as a special contribution to the Lord ; it belongs to the priest who takes the blood of the animal and throws it against the altar. ¹⁵ The flesh of the animal must be eaten on the day it is sacrificed; none of it may be left until the next morning. ¹⁶ If you bring a fellowship offering as fulfillment of a vow or as your own freewill offering, not all of it has to be eaten on the day it is offered, but any that is left over may be eaten on the following day. ¹⁷ Any meat that still remains on the third day must be burned. ¹⁸ If any of it is eaten on the third day, God will not accept your offering. The offering will not be counted to your credit but will be considered unclean, and whoever eats it will suffer the consequences. ¹⁹ If the meat comes into contact with anything ritually unclean, it must not be eaten, but must be burned. Any of you that are ritually clean may eat the meat, ²⁰ but if any of you who are not clean eat it, you shall no longer be considered one of God's people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the priest: Leviticus 3:5, Leviticus 3:11, Leviticus 3:16

the breast: Leviticus 7:34, Leviticus 5:13, Leviticus 6:16, Leviticus 6:26, Leviticus 8:29, Numbers 18:18

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:13 - all the fat Exodus 29:27 - the breast Leviticus 8:27 - and waved Leviticus 23:20 - holy to Numbers 6:20 - with the wave Numbers 18:20 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar,.... Of burnt offering, even the fat upon the inwards, the two kidneys, the flanks, the caul, and liver:

but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons; which being waved before the Lord for a wave offering, was the Lord's, and so was given to his priests to eat of, for the service done by them, it being but reasonable that they that serve at the altar should live of it; and thus, with other things, a maintenance was provided for the priests and their families, as ought also to be for Gospel ministers under the present dispensation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wave-offering ... heave-offering - The latter appears to be used (like קרבן qorbân, Leviticus 1:2) for offerings in general. Waving (a moving to and fro, repeated several times) or heaving (a lifting up once) the offering was a solemn form of dedicating a thing to the use of the sanctuary.