וְהִקְטִ֧יר הַכֹּהֵ֛ן אֶת הַחֵ֖לֶב הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה וְהָיָה֙ הֶֽחָזֶ֔ה לְאַהֲרֹ֖ן וּלְבָנָֽיו
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 7:31
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 7:31 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the priest shall cause the fat to become smoke on the altar, and the breast shall be for Aaron and for his sons.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then the Priest shall burne the fatte vpon the Altar, and the breast shall be Aarons and his sonnes.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Who shall burn the fat upon the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
`And the priest hath made perfume with the fat on the altar, and the breast hath been Aaron's and his sons;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the priest has made incense with the fat on the altar, and the breast has been Aaron’s and his sons;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The priest must burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the priest shall cause the fat to become smoke on the altar, and the breast shall be for Aaron and for his sons.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar; and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast is for Aaron and his sons.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the fat is to be burned by the priest on the altar, but the breast is for Aaron and his sons.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the priest shall make the fat smoke upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
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הֶֽחָזֶ֔ה
châzeh
H2373
“the · breast”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 13× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 29:26
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
breast (of animals), breast of an animal sacrifice
- וְהִקְטִ֧יר qâṭar H6999 “and · to burn incense” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַכֹּהֵ֛ן kôhên H3548 “the · priest” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַחֵ֖לֶב cheleb H2459 “the · fat” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה mizbêach H4196 “the · altar · toward” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
- וְהָיָה֙ hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הֶֽחָזֶ֔ה châzeh H2373 “the · breast” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לְאַהֲרֹ֖ן ʼAhărôwn H175 “to/for · Aaron” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- וּלְבָנָֽיו bên H1121 “and · to/for · sons · his” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הֶֽחָזֶ֔ה breast H2373 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הֶֽחָזֶ֔ה breast H2373 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 6 nouns
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וְהִקְטִ֧יר Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
- וְהָיָה֙ Qal · Sequential Perfect
Cross-references
9Topical passages linked to Leviticus 7:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Leviticus 3:5 Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 3:11 The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 3:16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is Yahweh's.
- Leviticus 7:34 For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.'"
- Leviticus 5:13 The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest's, as the meal offering.'"
- Leviticus 6:16 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting
- Leviticus 6:26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 8:29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 18:18 The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ἀναφέρω ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ στέαρ ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον καί εἰμί ὁ στηθύνιον ἀαρών καί ὁ υἱός αὐτός
No English rendering of this Greek verse — the small residue in the structurally divergent books.
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיַסֵק כַּהֲנָא יָת תַּרְבָּא לְמַדְבְּחָא וִיהֵי חֶדְיָא לְאַהֲרֹן וְלִבְנוֹהִי
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְיִסַק כַּהֲנָא יַת תַּרְבָּא לְמַדְבְּחָא וִיהֵי חַדְיָא לְאַהֲרן וְלִבְנוֹי
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar, and the breast shall be for Aharon and for his sons.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châzeh (“breast”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word châzeh carries the sense “breast.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Exodus 29:26, which shares the word «breast», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וְהִקְטִ֧יר» is a Hiphil Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 7:31 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.