Numbers 15:20

Translations

Modern

From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.

Traditional

Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.

Literal

From the first of your ground meal you shall offer up a cake as a contribution; as a contribution of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.

Latin

…de cibis vestris. Sicut de areis primitias separatis,

Original

Hebrew

English

From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.

Notes

Numbers 15:17–21

These gifts were signs of gratitude to God for the crops he provided. The people were not to give these offerings right away. They were to begin after the Hebrews reached the promised land.

At that time, they would settle there and begin planting crops. Then they would bring these gifts to thank God for the harvest.

Numbers 15:1–41

Chapters 1–14 cover a short time period, but chapter 15 marks the start of a long period. This is the main part of the forty years in the wilderness, about which little is known. There are references to events during this time (for example, Deuteronomy 8:2–6; 29:5–6; Joshua 5:4–8; Ezekiel 20:10–26; Amos 5:25–26; Acts 7:42–43).

During this period, Moses continued to give laws to guide Israel’s life as a nation. These laws would be especially important in the future. They were meant for the day when the people who survived the wilderness would enter the promised land.

This chapter addresses three main types of laws. Numbers 15 is in the middle of stories about a stubborn and disobedient Israel. It offers hope that the promised land still waited for the next generation of Israel’s people.

Related verses

Leviticus 2:14
If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
Exodus 34:26
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Deuteronomy 26:2–10
…you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
Ezekiel 44:30
The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.
Nehemiah 10:37
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
Exodus 23:19
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Proverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;
Leviticus 23:14–17
You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
Leviticus 23:10
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
Deuteronomy 14:22
You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
James 1:18
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
Numbers 18:12
I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Deuteronomy, Book of Firstfruits Numbers, Book of Offerings and Sacrifices Wilderness Wanderings

Topics

Bread: First Fruit of, offered to God Dough: First of, offered to God First Fruits: As a Heave offering Heave-Offering: Consisted of First Fruits of Bread Offerings: Heave: To be offered on Taking Possession of the Land of Canaan Offerings: Heave: when offered

Numbers 15:20

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