WAVING — a priestly gesture named by a noun built directly from the verb that performs it, the same figure behind millu-yad, 'filling the hand,' for ordination itself (see the Dictionary). First commanded when Moses waves the ordination ram's breast and fat 'before Jehovah' (Exodus 29:24, 26-27, already on these pages). ⚠ No one knows exactly what the physical motion was — forward-and-back, side-to-side, or simply a gesture of presentation — the text names the act but never once describes it. Leviticus 7:30 makes it the ordinary, permanent rule for every peace-offering afterward, not just the one-time ordination: the breast is always waved before it becomes the officiating priest's own portion. ⚠ The gesture escalates by stages: an object (the sheaf, Leviticus 23:11), a piece of a slaughtered animal (breast and thigh, Leviticus 7:30), two LIVE lambs waved with the firstfruit loaves (Leviticus 23:20) — and finally living human beings, at Numbers 8:11, 13, 15, 21 (all already on these pages), where Aaron waves the whole tribe of Levi 'as a wave-offering before Jehovah.' That last step is the only place in the Torah the gesture reaches PEOPLE. The text does not explain how one waves an entire tribe; it simply reports that he does. → first discussed at Exod 29:24