Numbers 15:21

Numbers 15:21 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord an heave offering in your generations.
• New International Version (NIV)Throughout the generations to come you are to give this offering to the Lord from the first of your ground meal.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.

Context of Numbers 15:21

19then, when you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering (heave offering) to the Lord. 20You shall lift up a cake made of the first of your [ground grain which has been made into] dough as an offering [to the Lord]; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you lift it up. From the first of your dough (ground grain) you shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your generations. 22‘But when you unintentionally fail and do not observe all these commandments, which the Lord has spoken to Moses, 23even all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandments and onward throughout your generations,

Numbers 15:21 word by word

מֵרֵאשִׁית֙ עֲרִסֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם תִּתְּנ֥וּ לַיהוָ֖ה תְּרוּמָ֑ה לְדֹרֹ֖תֵיכֶֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Of the firstרֵאשִׁיתrê'shîyth · first: beginningH7225
• of your doughעֲרִיסָה‛ărîysâh · doughH6182
• ye shall giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• unto the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• an heave offeringתְּרוּמָהterûmâh terûmâh · contributionH8641
• in your generationsדּוֹרdôr dôr · generationH1755

Cross-references for Numbers 15:21

• Numbers 18:26“Moreover, you shall speak to the Levites and say to them, ‘When you take from the Israelites the tithe which I have given to you from them as your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe [paid by the people].
• Exodus 29:28It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their due portion from the Israelites forever, for it is a heave offering. It shall be a heave offering to the Lord from the Israelites from the sacrifices of their peace offerings.

Commentaries on Numbers 15:21

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-21These gifts were signs of gratitude to God for the crops he provided. The people were not to give these offerings right away. They were to begin after the Hebrews reached the promised land. At that time, they would settle there and begin planting crops. Then they would bring these gifts to thank God for the harvest.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-411-2. The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel--Some infer from Nu 15:23 that the date of this communication must be fixed towards the close of the wanderings in the wilderness; and, also, that all the sacrifices prescribed in the law were to be offered only after the settlement in Canaan.Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 15:21

• Dough
• Offerings

In the dictionaries

• Heave offering
• Dedicate
• Exodus
• Firstfruits
• Presumptuously
• Agrapha
• Chronicles, Books of
• First-Fruits
• Genealogy
• Numbers, Book of

Commentaries on Numbers 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings