Exodus 29:24

hands lit. palms; hence -upon," i.e. upon the open palms.

wave them Moses is to -wave" the offerings enumerated in vv.22, 23, as they lie upon the priests" hands, before Jehovah i.e. to wave them not from right to left, but towards the altar and back. The ceremony of -waving" first in H, Leviticus 23:11; Leviticus 23:20 is prescribed mostly for offerings which become ultimately the perquisite of the priests: and it seems to be intended as a symbolical expression of the fact that such offerings are first given to God, and then given back by Him to the priest for his own use (Di. on Leviticus 7:30, Now. ii. 239, Bä.): cf. Numbers 5:25; and see further on Leviticus 7:30. Here, as the offerings were afterwards, not given to the priests, but burned upon the altar (v.25), the symbolism of the ceremony must be different; perhaps it is meant as a symbolical induction of the priests by Moses into their office of presenting sacrifices upon the altar (Bä.).