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Numbers 18:27

That tenth will be your offering to the Lord. It will be like grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Priest;   Wine Press;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Corn;   Grain;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heave-Offering;   Levites, the;   Threshing;   Tithe;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Tithe;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Giving;   Levite;   Priest;   Tithes;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Corn;   Tithe;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Impute;   Levites;   Priest;   Tithes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Economic Life;   Justification;   Levites;   Pentateuch;   Tithe;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron's Rod;   Malachi;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levites ;   Tithes;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Levites;   Tithes;   Winepress;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Priest;   Tithe;   Wave Offering;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Tithe;   Wine;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agriculture;   ḥaber;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
Your contribution will be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor and like the produce from the press.
New Century Version
I will accept your offering just as much as I accept the offerings from others, who give new grain or new wine.
New English Translation
And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.
Amplified Bible
'Your offering shall be credited to you as the grain from the threshing floor or as the full produce from the wine vat.
New American Standard Bible
'Your offering shall be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And your heaue offering shalbe reckened vnto you, as the corne of the barne, or as the abundance of the wine presse.
Legacy Standard Bible
And your contribution offering shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.
Contemporary English Version
Just as the Israelites give me part of their grain and wine, you must set aside part of what you receive
Complete Jewish Bible
The gift you set aside will be accounted to you as if it were grain from the threshing-floor and grape juice from the wine vat.
Darby Translation
And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as the corn from the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
English Standard Version
And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
George Lamsa Translation
And this your gift offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain from the threshing floor, and as the gift offering of the wine press.
Good News Translation
This special contribution will be considered as the equivalent of the offering which the farmer makes of new grain and new wine.
Christian Standard Bible®
Your offering will be credited to you as if it were your grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress.
Literal Translation
And your heave offering shall be counted to you as grain from the threshing floor, and as fullness from the winepress.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the same yor Heueofferynge shall ye reken, as though ye gaue corne out of the barne, and fullnesse out of the wynepresse.
American Standard Version
And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Bible in Basic English
And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this your heaue offeryng shalbe reckened vnto you, euen as though it were of the corne of the barne, or as the fulnesse of the wine presse.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the gift which ye set apart shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the wine-press.
King James Version (1611)
And this your heaue offering shall be reckoned vnto you, as though it were the corne of the threshing floore, and as the fulnesse of the wine presse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And your heave-offerings shall be reckoned to you as corn from the floor, and an offering from the wine-press.
English Revised Version
And your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Berean Standard Bible
Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that it be arettid to you in to offryng of the firste fruytis, as wel of corn flooris as of pressis;
Young's Literal Translation
and your heave-offering hath been reckoned to you as corn from the threshing-floor, and as fulness from the wine-vat;
Update Bible Version
And your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [this] your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though [it were] the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the wine-press.
World English Bible
Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
New King James Version
And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress.
New Living Translation
The Lord will consider this offering to be your harvest offering, as though it were the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress.
New Life Bible
And your gift will be to you as if it were the grain from the grain-floor or all the wine from the crushed grapes.
New Revised Standard
It shall be reckoned to you as your gift, the same as the grain of the threshing floor and the fullness of the wine press.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
shall your heave-offering be reckoned your own, - as corn out of the threshing-floor, and as the abundance out of the wine-press.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of firstfruits, as well of the barnfloors as of the winepresses:
Revised Standard Version
And your offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fulness of the wine press.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Your offering shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.

Contextual Overview

20 The Lord also said to Aaron, "You will not get any of the land. And you will not own anything that the other people own. I myself will be yours. The Israelites will get the land that I promised, but I am my gift to you. 21 "The Israelites will give one-tenth of everything they have. So I give that one-tenth to the Levites. This is their payment for the work that they do while they serve at the Meeting Tent. 22 But the other Israelites must never go near that Meeting Tent. If they do, they must be put to death! 23 The Levites will do the work of caring for the Meeting Tent. They must bear the responsibility for anything done against it. This is a law that will continue forever. The Levites will not get any of the land that I promised to the other Israelites. 24 But the Israelites will give one-tenth of everything they have to the Lord , and I will give that one-tenth to the Levites. That is why I said these words about the Levites: They will not get the land that I promised the Israelites." 25 The Lord said to Moses, 26 "Speak to the Levites and tell them: The Israelites will give one-tenth of everything they own to the Lord . That one-tenth will belong to the Levites. But you must give one-tenth of that to the Lord as your offering. 27 That tenth will be your offering to the Lord. It will be like grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress. 28 In this way you will also give an offering to the Lord just as the other Israelites do. You will get the one-tenth that the Israelites give to the Lord , and then you will give one-tenth of that to Aaron the priest. 29 When the Israelites give you one-tenth of everything that they own, then you must give the best and the holiest part of these things as your gift to the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as though: Leviticus 6:19-23

the corn: Numbers 18:30, Numbers 15:20, Deuteronomy 15:14, 2 Kings 6:27, Hosea 9:1, Hosea 9:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:18 - be imputed Ezekiel 44:30 - all the firstfruits

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living thing.
Genesis 3:19
You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die, and then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you, and when you die, you will become dust again."
Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the oak trees of Mamre. It was the hottest part of the day, and Abraham was sitting at the door of his tent.
Genesis 18:2
He looked up and saw three men standing in front of him. When he saw the men, he ran to them and bowed before them.
Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried to the tent. He said to Sarah, "Quickly, prepare enough flour for three loaves of bread."
Genesis 18:8
Abraham brought the meat and some milk and cheese and set them down in front of the three men. Then he stood near the men, ready to serve them while they sat under the tree and ate.
Genesis 18:30
Then Abraham said, "Lord, please don't be angry with me, but let me ask you this. If only thirty good people are in the city, will you destroy it?" The Lord said, "If I find thirty good people there, I will not destroy the city."
Genesis 18:32
Then Abraham said, "Lord, please don't be angry with me, but let me bother you this one last time. If you find ten good people there, what will you do?" The Lord said, "If I find ten good people in the city, I will not destroy it."
Ezra 9:6
Then I prayed this prayer: "My God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to look at you. I am ashamed because our sins are higher than our heads. Our guilt has reached all the way up to the heavens.
Job 4:19
So surely people are worse! They live in houses of clay built on dust. They can be crushed as easily as a moth!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [this] your heave offering,.... The tithe of the tithe, which though not properly heaved or lifted up, as the heave offerings, strictly so called, were, any more than the tithe itself, Numbers 18:24; yet is so called, because separated to the use and service of the Lord, as they were:

shall be reckoned unto you, as though [it were] the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress; that is, it should be as acceptable to God as if they had fields and vineyards, threshing floors, and wine presses of their own, from whence corn and wine were taken, as the Israelites when they received their tithes from them; and what remained they had as good a right unto, and might make use of as their own, as well as they; see Numbers 18:30.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Reckoned unto you - Or, by you. The Levites were, of their tithes, to pay tithe to the priests, just as other Israelites paid tithe to the Levites.


 
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