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Numbers 18

Numbers 18:27

Offerings for Priests and Levites · Numbers 18:8–32
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Translations

Modern
Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
Traditional
And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Literal
And your contributions shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
Latin
…ut reputetur vobis in oblationem primitivorum, tam de areis quam de torcularibus:

Original

Hebrew
English
Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

Notes

Numbers 18:25–32

The Levites received a tithe (one-tenth) of the goods of the Israelites (18:24). However, they were not allowed to keep all of it. They also had to give a tithe of that tithe, which means one-tenth of the one-tenth. They gave this portion to the priests as their own harvest offering (18:27).

Numbers 18:1–32

The instructions here came from the need shown in chapter 17 for clear boundaries between the people, priests, and Levites. The Levites had special privileges and important responsibilities. One key part of their job was to protect the Tent of Meeting from unauthorized entry (chapter 16).

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Deuteronomy, Book of Numbers, Book of Tithe, Tithing Worship

Topics

Heave-Offering: Sanctified the Whole offering Levites: Tithes and Other offerings Priest: Benefits of Tithes of the Tithes The Levites: Bound to Give a Tenth of Their Tithes to the Priests Threshing: The Place For: Called the Threshing Floor Tithe: The Tenth of, offered by the Levites As an Heave offering To Wine Press: General Scriptures Concerning