Numbers 15:21

THE MESSAGE

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.

English Revised Version
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an 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 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When you enter your homeland that I am giving to you and sacrifice a Fire-Gift to God , a Whole-Burnt-Offering or any sacrifice from the herd or flock for a Vow-Offering or Freewill-Offering at one of the appointed feasts, as a pleasing fragrance for God , the one bringing the offering shall present to God a Grain-Offering of two quarts of fine flour mixed with a quart of oil. With each lamb for the Whole-Burnt-Offering or other sacrifice, prepare a quart of oil and a quart of wine as a Drink-Offering. ⁶"For a ram prepare a Grain-Offering of four quarts of fine flour mixed with one and a quarter quarts of oil and one and a quarter quarts of wine as a Drink-Offering. Present it as a pleasing fragrance to God . ⁸"When you prepare a young bull as a Whole-Burnt-Offering or sacrifice for a special vow or a Peace-Offering to God , bring with the bull a Grain-Offering of six quarts of fine flour and two quarts of oil. Also bring two quarts of wine as a Drink-Offering. It will be a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God . ¹¹"Each bull or ram, each lamb or young goat, is to be prepared in this same way. Carry out this procedure for each one, no matter how many you have to prepare. ¹³"Every native-born Israelite is to follow this procedure when he brings a Fire-Gift as a pleasing fragrance to God . In future generations, when a foreigner or visitor living at length among you presents a Fire-Gift as a pleasing fragrance to God , the same procedures must be followed. The community has the same rules for you and the foreigner living among you. This is the regular rule for future generations. You and the foreigner are the same before God . The same laws and regulations apply to both you and the foreigner who lives with you." ¹⁷ God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When you enter the land into which I'm bringing you, and you eat the food of that country, set some aside as an offering for God . From the first batch of bread dough make a round loaf for an offering—an offering from the threshing floor. Down through the future generations make this offering to God from each first batch of dough.

Bible Verse Review
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Numbers 18:26, Exodus 29:28

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 7:1
When God , your God, brings you into the country that you are about to enter and take over, he will clear out the superpowers that were there before you: the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Those seven nations are all bigger and stronger than you are. God , your God, will turn them over to you and you will conquer them. You must completely destroy them, offering them up as a holy destruction to God . Don't make a treaty with them. Don't let them off in any way.

Matthew 8:28
They landed in the country of the Gadarenes and were met by two madmen, victims of demons, coming out of the cemetery. The men had terrorized the region for so long that no one considered it safe to walk down that stretch of road anymore. Seeing Jesus, the madmen screamed out, "What business do you have giving us a hard time? You're the Son of God! You weren't supposed to show up here yet!" Off in the distance a herd of pigs was browsing and rooting. The evil spirits begged Jesus, "If you kick us out of these men, let us live in the pigs."

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.