A priest from Aaron’s descendants is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to take a tenth of this offering to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
Numbers 15:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Throughout your generations, you are to give the Lord a contribution from the first batch of your dough. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the Lord a portion for a gift throughout your generations [your heave or lifted-out offering]. American Standard Version (1901) Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations. Common English Bible You will give a gift offering from the first bread you bake for all time. Catholic Public Domain Version so also shall you give the first-fruits of your cooked grains to the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So also shall you give first-fruits of your dough to the Lord. |
A priest from Aaron’s descendants is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to take a tenth of this offering to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
‘Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. ‘You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is a contribution. It will be the Israelites’ contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, their contribution to the Lord.
The best of all the firstfruits of every kind and contribution of every kind from all your gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest so that a blessing may rest on your homes.
You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain until this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.
You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing-floor.
‘When you sin unintentionally and do not obey all these commands that the Lord spoke to Moses #– #
‘Speak to the Levites and tell them: When you receive from the Israelites the tenth that I have given you as your inheritance, you are to present part of it as an offering to the Lord #– #a tenth of the tenth.