God’s Word Translation
Numbers 18:27
27Your contribution will be considered to be grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
Numbers 18:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
- English Standard Version (ESV)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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)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.
Context of Numbers 18:27
25The Lord said to Moses, 26“Speak to the Levites and say to them: You will take one-tenth of the Israelites’ income which I’m giving you as your property. When you do, you must contribute one-tenth of that income as your contribution to the Lord. Your contribution will be considered to be grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress. 28So you, too, will contribute one-tenth of your income to the Lord out of all that you receive from the Israelites’ income. You will give the Lord’s contribution to the priest Aaron. 29Out of all the gifts you receive, you must contribute the best and holiest parts to the Lord.
Read all of Numbers 18Numbers 18:27 word by word
וְנֶחְשַׁ֥ב לָכֶ֖ם תְּרוּמַתְכֶ֑ם כַּדָּגָן֙ מִן־הַגֹּ֔רֶן וְכַֽמְלֵאָ֖ה מִן־הַיָּֽקֶב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Numbers 18:27
- Leviticus 6:19The Lord spoke to Moses,
- Numbers 18:30“Also tell them: When you contribute the best part, your contribution will be considered to be produce from the threshing floor or winepress.
- Numbers 15:20Shape one part of your dough into a ring the same way you do with the contribution you make from the threshing floor.
- Deuteronomy 15:14Generously give them provisions—sheep from your flocks, grain from your threshing floor, and wine from your winepress. Be as generous to them as the Lord your God has been to you.
- 2 Kings 6:27He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, how can I help you? I can’t give you something from the threshing floor or the winepress.”
- Hosea 9:1Israel, don’t rejoice. Don’t celebrate as other nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor.
Commentaries on Numbers 18:27
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27Reckoned 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.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-32Verses 20-32 As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in ver. #(31), the way to have comfort in all our worldly…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 25-32The Levites received a tithe (one-tenth) of the goods of the Israelites (18:24). However, they were not allowed to keep all of it. They also had to give a tithe of that tithe, which means one-tenth of the one-tenth. They gave this portion to the priests as their own harvest offering (18:27).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 21-3221-22. I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve--Neither the priests nor the Levites were to possess any allotments of land but to depend entirely upon Him who liberally provided for them out of His own portion; and this law was subservient to many important purposes--such as that, being exempted from the cares and labors of worldly business, they might be exclusively devoted to His…Read the comment
Topics related to Numbers 18:27
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Numbers 18
- 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
God’s Word Translation — © 1995 God’s Word to the Nations Bible Society
Commentaries