then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh. Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it. Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you, then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh. Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it. Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
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then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.
Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
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Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
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.
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
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then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall set apart a portion for a gift unto the LORD.
Of the first of your dough ye shall set apart a cake for a gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall ye set it apart.
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations.
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- Joshua 5:11-12 (v19) They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day. The manna…
- Leviticus 2:14 (v20) “ ‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain…
- Exodus 34:26 (v20) “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its…
- Deuteronomy 26:2-10 (v20) that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives…
- Exodus 23:19 (v20) You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its…
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- Exodus 29:28 (v21) It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a wave…
- Leviticus 23:10 (v20) “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then…
- Leviticus 23:14-17 (v20) You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a…
- Nehemiah 10:37 (v20) and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil,…
- Proverbs 3:9-10 (v20) Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will…
- Ezekiel 44:30 (v20) The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You…
- Leviticus 23:20 (v20) The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to…
- Numbers 18:12 (v20) “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to…
- Numbers 18:26 (v21) “Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from…
- Deuteronomy 14:22 (v20) You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
- Matthew 6:33 (v20) But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Romans 11:16 (v20) If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20 (v20) But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
- James 1:18 (v20) Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- Revelation 14:4 (v20) These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v20 Which is made of the first corn ye gather.
Which is made of the first corn ye gather.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On v20 Num 15:20 Ye shall offer up a cake of…
Num 15:20 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.
Ver. 20. Ye shall offer up a cake.] As a homage penny, as acknowledging God the chief Lord of all; and as craving his leave to partake of his creatures.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv19–20 When ye eat, i.e. when you are about to…
When ye eat, i.e. when you are about to eat it; for before they did eat it, they were to offer this offering to God.
Of the bread, i.e. the bread-corn, as that word is used. Job 28:5; Psa 104:15; Isa 28:22.
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Unto the Lord, i.e. to the priest of the Lord, as appears from Eze 44:30.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv19–21 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first…
Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering,.... Of the first dough made of the first corn that was threshed, winnowed and ground, they were to make a cake, and offer it an heave offering unto the Lord; the quantity of it is not expressed, but was left to the people's generosity; no stinted measure was fixed by the law; but according to the Scribes, or the traditions of the elders, the quantity of the cake was the twenty fourth part of the first dough that was kneaded; not the forty fourth, as Buxtorf (p) through mistake says; so the Targum of Jonathan,"of the first of your dough, one out of twenty four (i.e. the twenty fourth part of it), ye shall separate a separation for the priests,''with which agrees the Misnah (q), though according to that, if made to sell publicly it was the forty eighth part of it. Some, because Num 15:21 begins and ends with "mem", which numerically signifies "forty", think this is an instruction to a bountiful person to give the fortieth part (r):
as ye do the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall ye heave it; as the two wave loaves and firstfruits of their harvest, Lev 23:16.
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(p) Synagog. Jud. c. 34. p. 602. (q) Challah, c. 2. sect. 7. so Schulchan Aruch, par. 2. c. 322. so Jarchi & Ben Gersom in loc. (r) Baal Hatturim in loc.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv19–20 When ye eat - When you are about to…
When ye eat - When you are about to eat it: for before they eat it, they were to offer this offering to God. The bread - That is, the bread-corn.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v20 Verse 20. Ye shall offer - the first of…
Verse 20. Ye shall offer - the first of your dough] Concerning the offerings of first-fruits, See Clarke on Ex 22:29.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v19 Num 15:19-20. When ye eat — When you are…
Num 15:19-20. When ye eat — When you are about to eat it; for before they eat it, they were to offer this offering to God. The bread of the land — That is, the bread-corn. The threshing-floor — That is, of the corn in the threshing-floor, when you have gathered in your corn.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v20 Dough - “Coarse meal” Neh 10:37; Eze 44:30.
Dough - “Coarse meal” Neh 10:37; Eze 44:30.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v20 Eat. Hebrew and Septuagint, "of your dough." They elevated…
Eat. Hebrew and Septuagint, "of your dough." They elevated a part towards heaven, and gave it to the priest or Levite, who lived nearest them; and, in case none could be found, as at the present day, they were to burn it in honour of God. Tradition determines the quantity to be between a 40th and a 60th part. (St. Jerome in Ezec. xlv.) This they do every time they bake, according to Philo, and Leo of Modena, (2. 9,) though the law be not clear, and some might think it sufficient to give a part, the first time they baked with new flour.
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).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv19–20 when ye eat of the bread of the land,…
when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering--The offering prescribed was to precede the act of eating.
unto the Lord--that is, the priests of the Lord (Eze 44:30).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv19–20 19. Heave offering — Heb, t’roomah, a gift taken…
19. Heave offering — Heb, t’roomah, a gift taken from a whole, which one brings to God. It may consist of meat, sin, trespass, or thank offerings; of the firstborn; tithes; prisoners taken in war, (Num_31:28-29;) gold and silver; or, as here, of firstfruits. It is rendered offering twenty-five times, heave offering twenty-four times, oblation eighteen times, heave shoulder thrice, and gift once. See Lev_7:14, note.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv19–20 19. an heave-offering] a contribution. See on Num_15:9.
19. an heave-offering] a contribution. See on Num_15:9.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v20 (20) Of the first of your dough.—Or, mixed meal.…
(20) Of the first of your dough.—Or, mixed meal. The word arisoth is used only in the plural number, and is found only in Neh_10:37 and Eze_44:30, besides this and the following verse.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv19–20 When ye eat of the bread of the land.…
When ye eat of the bread of the land. A thing which the younger Israelites, few of whom had ever tasted bread, must have eagerly looked forward to. (see on Jos_5:11, Jos_5:12) A heave offering. See on Exo_29:27 Lev_7:14. The dedication of first-fruits had been ordered in general terms in Exo_22:29 Exo_23:19.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v20 the first of your dough
the first of your dough
Possible meanings are that this refers to 1) the first grain that they would gather during the harvest or 2) the dough that they would make from the first of their grain. (See: Metonymy)
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a loaf
Calling it a loaf implies that they would cooked the dough first.
to raise it up as a raised offering
This idiom "raise it up" refers to offering it as a gift. AT: "to offer it as a gift" (See: Idiom)
a raised offering from the threshing floor
The offering is spoken of as being from the threshing floor because this is where they would separate the grain from the other parts of the plant.
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raise
thresh
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