Numbers 15:20 - Easy To Read Version You will gather grain and grind it into flour to make dough for bread. You must give the first of that dough as a gift to the Lord. It will be like the grain offering that comes from the threshing floor. [194] Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall set apart a cake made of the first of your coarse meal as a gift [to the Lord]; as an offering set apart from the threshing floor, so shall you lift it out or heave it. American Standard Version (1901) Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it. Common English Bible You will present a gift offering from the first bread you bake just like you present a gift offering from the threshing floor. Catholic Public Domain Version from the foods that you eat. Just as you separate the first-fruits of your threshing floors, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Of the things you eat. As you separate first-fruits of your barnfloors, |
“And we will also bring to the storage rooms of the Lord’s temple, {\cf2\super [67]} to the priests, these things: The first of our ground meal, the first of our grain offerings, the firstfruit from all our trees, and first part from our new wine and oil. And we will bring a tenth of our crops to the Levites. Why? Because the Levites collect these things in all the towns where we work.
“When you gather your crops at harvest time, you should bring the first of everything you harvest to the house [150] of the Lord your God.
“Give the Lord the very first crops that you harvest. Bring those things to the house [353] of the Lord your God.
And the first part of the harvest from every kind of crop will be for the priests. You will also give the priests the first of your dough. This will bring blessings to your house.
You may bring yeast and honey to the Lord as an offering from the first harvest. But yeast and honey must not be burned to go up as a sweet smell on the altar. [14]
“When you bring a grain offering from the first harvest to the Lord, you must bring roasted heads of grain. They must be crushed heads of fresh grain. This will be your grain offering from the first harvest.
“Tell the people of Israel: You will enter the land that I will give you. You will reap its harvest. At that time, you must bring in the first sheaf [399] of your harvest to the priest.
“The priest will wave them with the bread from the first harvest for a wave offering with two lambs before the Lord. They are holy to the Lord. They will belong to the priest.
This rule will continue forever, you must give the first of that dough as a gift to the Lord.
“And I give you all the best olive oil and all the best new wine and grain. These are the things that the people of Israel give to me, the Lord. These are the first things that they gather in their harvest.
The thing you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing the good things God wants you to do. Then all these other things you need will be given to you.
If the first piece of bread is offered to God, then the whole loaf is made holy. If the roots of a tree are holy, then the tree’s branches are holy too.
But Christ has truly been raised from death—the first one of all those \{believers\} who will be raised from death.
“Every year you must be sure to save one tenth of all the crops that grow in your fields.
Then you must go to the place the Lord chooses to be his special house. You will go there to be with the Lord your God. At that place you will eat the tenth of your crops—one tenth of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first animals born in your herds and flocks. In this way, you will always remember to respect the Lord your God.
“Seven days after you have gathered your harvest in from your threshing floor [104] and from your winepress, [105] you should celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
God decided to give us life through the word of truth. He wanted us to be the most important of all the things he made.
These 144,000 people are the ones who did not do wrong things with women. They kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb every place he goes. These 144,000 were redeemed (saved) from among the people of the earth. They are the first people to be offered to God and the Lamb.