Exodus 29:28
And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the Lord.
Cross-reference
Exodus 29:27 specifies the consecrated breast and thigh from the ordination ram — the immediate context for this perpetual due.
Leviticus 7:11-38 details the peace offering law, specifying the priestly portions from these sacrifices — the same perpetual due mentioned here.
Leviticus 7:14 also assigns a portion of peace offerings to the priest who throws the blood — reinforcing the same principle.
Leviticus 7:32-34 repeats the same perpetual statute: the breast and right shoulder from peace offerings belong to the priests — exactly the portions sanctified in Exodus 29:28.
Leviticus 7:34 restates this same law — the breast and thigh from peace offerings are a perpetual due for Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 10:14 instructs Aaron and his sons to eat the wave breast and heave shoulder — the very portions from peace offerings that Exodus 29:28 made their perpetual due.
Leviticus 10:15 reiterates the same perpetual statute for the heave shoulder and wave breast, confirming what Exodus 29:28 established.
Numbers 18:29 instructs Levites to present a contribution from their tithe to the priests — directly connected to how priests receive their portion.
Leviticus 9:21 shows Aaron waving the breast and thigh from the peace offering — a specific instance of the priestly portions prescribed here.
Numbers 18:11 explicitly calls the wave offerings a 'perpetual due' for priests — nearly identical language, confirming the same law.
Leviticus 3:1 introduces the peace offering regulations — the offering from which this priestly portion is taken.
1 Samuel 2:14 depicts Eli's sons taking meat from sacrifices with a fork — a narrative example of how priestly portions were taken, sometimes abused.
Numbers 6:20 gives the priest a holy portion from the Nazirite's wave offering — analogous to the priest's portion from peace offerings.
Deuteronomy 18:3 lists the priest's due from sacrifices — including the shoulder, which echoes the 'heave shoulder' portion established for priests in Exodus 29:28, though the full list differs.
Numbers 5:9 states that all contributions of holy things given to the priest become his — reinforcing the principle of priestly due from offerings.
Numbers 15:21 commands a contribution from the first of dough — a different offering type, but also a perpetual due to the LORD (and later to priests).
Numbers 18:24 assigns the tithe as a contribution to the Levites — a different offering but a similar perpetual due for the tribe.
Numbers 31:29 describes a contribution from war spoils given to the priest — a different source but same concept of priestly due.
Numbers 31:41 records the execution of giving the war spoils contribution to the priest — parallel to the perpetual due from peace offerings.