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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- Leviticus 2:14 “ ‘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 parched with fire and crushed.
- Exodus 34:26 “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 mother’s milk.”
- Deuteronomy 26:2-10 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 you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.” The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar. You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation. The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us. Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders; and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
- Exodus 23:19 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 mother’s milk.
- Leviticus 23:10 “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 you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
- Leviticus 23:14-17 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 statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. “ ‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh. You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
- Nehemiah 10:37 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, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
- Proverbs 3:9-10 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 overflow with new wine.
- Ezekiel 44:30 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 shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
- Leviticus 23:20 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 Yahweh for the priest.
- Numbers 18:12 “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 Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 14:22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
- Matthew 6:33 But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Romans 11:16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
- James 1:18 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 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 redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain 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 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 i.e. Of the corn in the threshing-floor, as Deu…
i.e. Of the corn in the threshing-floor, as Deu 16:13, when you have gathered in your corn.
So shall ye heave it, i.e. you shall offer this in the same proportion, to the same persons, i.e. the priests, and with the same rites.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Of the first of your dough shall ye give…
Of the first of your dough shall ye give unto the Lord,.... As an acknowledgment of his being the sovereign Lord and possessor of heaven and earth, and of his being the owner and proprietor of the land of Canaan; and by way of thankfulness to him for the plenty of bread corn he had given them; and wherefore this cake was to he heaved or lifted up towards him in heaven, as follows:
an heave offering in your generations: for this respected not only the first time of their entrance into the land of Canaan, but was to be observed every year when they made their first dough, and was to continue as long as the ceremonial law lasted: this cake was anciently given to the priest, which is meant by giving it to the Lord, but now the Jews take it and cast it into the fire and burn it (s) the apostle seems to allude to this cake of the first dough in Rom 11:16.
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(s) Buxtorf. ut supra, (Synagog. Jud. c. 34. p. 602.) & Leo Modena, History of the present Jews, par. 2. c. 9.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The threshing floor - That is, of the corn…
The threshing floor - That is, of the corn in the threshing floor, when you have gathered in your corn.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain 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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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain 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 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.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain heave offering of the threshing-floor--meaning the corn on the…
heave offering of the threshing-floor--meaning the corn on the threshing-floor; that is, after harvest.
so shall ye heave it--to the priests accompanying the ceremony with the same rites.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 20. The first of your dough — This command…
20. The first of your dough — This command is not addressed to the nation as in the case of “the sheaf of the firstfruits,” (see Lev_23:10, note,) but to every private family, and the Jews consider a woman as very culpable who neglects it. They interpret the command as requiring not merely a portion of the first dough made from the new harvest, but a portion of every bread-making through the year, whenever the lump of dough exceeds the bulk of forty eggs. This sacred portion was given to the priests or Levites in order to sanctify the rest. In the absence of any of these it was thrown into the fire. Paul refers to this usage in Rom_11:16. See note. Its symbolism is thus explained: “The cake signified in mystery the congregation of Israel, called the firstfruits of the world; which, when it is put into the oven that burneth with the fire of the blessed God, it is necessary to separate therefrom a cake, that it be not partaker of severe judgment; and therefore is a blessing reserved in the world.” — Rabbi Menahem. A still wider mystical import is found in the sons of God by adoption, who “are a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.” Jas_1:18.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. the first of your dough] The word rç’shîth…
20. the first of your dough] The word rç’shîth ‘the first’ need not necessarily mean ‘first-fruits,’ which were offered annually. It may be simply ‘the first part,’ i.e. a small fixed amount, perhaps at the getting in of each fresh supply for the household.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (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 A cake of the first of your dough. tsori,…
A cake of the first of your dough. tsori, only used here and in the two passages which refer to this enactment. (Neh_10:37 Eze_44:30) It probably means whole meal coarsely ground, the first preparation of the new corn available for baking and eating. Septuagint has aparch furamatov , an expression used by St. Paul in Rom_11:16.
As...the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall ye heave it, i.e., the offering of bread from the home was to be made in addition to the offering of ears or grains from the threshing-floor, and in the same manner. No doubt this latter offering was a very ancient (Gen_4:3) and general one, but it is not clearly described in the Law. (see, however, Lev_2:14 Lev_23:10) All these heave offerings were the perquisite of the priest.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 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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