Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’
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Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’
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Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
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Out of all that is given you ye shall set apart all of that which is due unto the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Read verse 12.
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Which ye have received of the children of Israel.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Out of all your gifts; not only out of…
Out of all your gifts; not only out of your tithes, but out of the other gifts which you receive from the people, and out of those fields which shall belong to your cities.
Ye shall offer, to wit, to the priest.
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Every heave-offering, i.e. as many gifts, so many heave-offerings; you shall reserve a part out of each of them for the priest.
The hallowed part thereof: this may describe either,
1. The nature and proportion of this offering, and so peradventure he means the tenth part, which was the part or proportion that God hallowed or sanctified to himself as his proper portion, both here and elsewhere; or,
2. The reason or ground of this offering, because it is a thing hallowed or appropriated by God to himself, and given by him to the priest, and because the payment of this due doth hallow all the rest, so as they may use it with comfort and good conscience, as it follows, Num 18:31,32.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore thou shalt say unto them,.... The Targum of…
Therefore thou shalt say unto them,.... The Targum of Jonathan is,"thou shalt say to them the priests;''but the words seem manifestly spoken to the Levites:
when ye have heaved the best thereof from it; taken out the tenth part of it, and that the best:
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then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press; then what remains shall be reckoned as much their own, and may be as lawfully enjoyed, as the corn of the threshing floor, and the wine of the wine fat, of any Israelite whatever.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Your gifts - Not only out of your tithes,…
Your gifts - Not only out of your tithes, but out of the other gifts which you receive from the people, and out of those fields which shall belong to your cities. Offer - To the priest. As many gifts, so many heave-offerings; you shall reserve a part out of each of them for the priest. The hallowed part - the tenth part, which was the part or proportion that God hallowed or sanctified to himself as his proper portion.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 18:29. Your gifts — Not only out of…
Num 18:29. Your gifts — Not only out of your tithes, but out of the other gifts which you receive from the people, and out of those fields which shall belong to your cities. Offer — To the priest. As many gifts, so many heave- offerings; you shall reserve a part out of each of them for the priest. The hallowed part — The tenth part, which was the part or proportion that God hallowed or sanctified to himself as his proper portion.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Out of all your gifts - The spirit of…
Out of all your gifts - The spirit of this law would extend to all the revenues of the Levites; of the increase of their cattle, as well as of their tithes, a tithe would be paid by them for the Lord’s service.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 29. Out of all your gifts — Every thing…
29. Out of all your gifts — Every thing received from the people and every gift of Providence produced in their suburban fields was subject to the tithe.
Heave offering of the Lord — That is, to the priests as Jehovah’s representatives.
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All the best — Literally, the fat. This implies that the tenth given shall be of as good quality as the nine tenths retained. But if one bullock out of the ten, or one sheep, was of extraordinary excellence it must be given.
The hallowed part — Set apart or consecrated to a holy use.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.