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English Revised Version

Numbers 15:21

Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering throughout your generations.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dough;   Offerings;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heave-Offering;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Firstfruits;   Easton Bible Dictionary - First-Fruits;   Heave Offering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Firstfruits;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Expiation, Propitiation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - First-Fruit ;   Holiness Purity;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Stranger;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Offering;   Smith Bible Dictionary - First-Fruits;   Sacrifice;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - First-Fruits;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - ḥallah;   Heave-Offering;   Hur;   Mishnah;   Priestly Code;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD a heave-offering throughout your generations.
King James Version
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord an heave offering in your generations.
Lexham English Bible
You will give to Yahweh a contribution from the first of your dough throughout your generations.
New Century Version
From now on offer to the Lord the first part of your grain.
New English Translation
You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.
Amplified Bible
'From the first of your dough (ground grain) you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.
New American Standard Bible
'From the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of the first of your dowe ye shal giue vnto the Lord an heaue offring in your generations.
Legacy Standard Bible
From the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a contribution offering throughout your generations.
Contemporary English Version
All your descendants must follow this law and offer part of the first batch of bread dough.
Complete Jewish Bible
From your first dough you will give Adonai a portion as a gift through all your generations.
Darby Translation
Of the first of your dough ye shall give to Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.
Easy-to-Read Version
You and all your descendants must give part of the first dough you make from that flour as a gift to the Lord .
English Standard Version
Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.
George Lamsa Translation
Of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD a heave offering throughout your generations.
Good News Translation
For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the Lord from the bread you bake.
Christian Standard Bible®
Throughout your generations, you are to give the Lord a contribution from the first batch of your dough.
Literal Translation
You shall give of the first of your dough to Jehovah, a heave offering for your generations.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
euen so shal ye geue the firstlinges of youre dowe also vnto the LORDE, for an Heueofferynge amonge youre posterities.
American Standard Version
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.
Bible in Basic English
From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of the first of your dowe ye shall geue vnto the Lorde an heaue offering in your generations.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations.
King James Version (1611)
Of the first of your dough ye shal giue vnto the Lord, an heaue offering in your generations.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
even the first-fruits of your dough, and ye shall give the Lord a heave-offering throughout your generations.
Berean Standard Bible
Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
so ye schulen yyue the firste fruytis also of sewis to the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
Of the beginning of your dough ye do give to Jehovah a heave-offering -- to your generations.
Update Bible Version
Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a heave-offering throughout your generations.
Webster's Bible Translation
Of the first of your dough ye shall give to the LORD a heave-offering in your generations.
World English Bible
Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a heave-offering throughout your generations.
New King James Version
Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the LORD a heave offering throughout your generations.
New Living Translation
Throughout the generations to come, you are to present a sacred offering to the Lord each year from the first of your ground flour.
New Life Bible
From the first of your grain you and all your children-to-come must give a gift to the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Throughout your generations you shall give to the Lord a donation from the first of your batch of dough.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of the first of your meal, shall ye give unto Yahweh a heave-offering, - unto your generations.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'From the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.

Contextual Overview

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, 3 and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock: 4 then shall he that offereth his oblation offer unto the LORD a meal offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil: 5 and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of an hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil: 7 and for the drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings unto the LORD: 9 then shall he offer with the bullock a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half an hin of oil. 10 and thou shalt offer for the drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 18:26, Exodus 29:28

Cross-References

Genesis 15:15
But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 15:19
the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Exodus 33:2
and I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exodus 34:11
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Matthew 8:28
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming forth out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man could pass by that way.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Romans 11:16.

s Buxtorf. ut supra, (Synagog. Jud. c. 34. p. 602.) & Leo Modena, History of the present Jews, par. 2. c. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dough - “Coarse meal” Nehemiah 10:37; Ezekiel 44:30.


 
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