Numbers 18:12

Numbers 18:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.
• New International Version (NIV)“I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the Lord as the firstfruits of their harvest.
• English Standard Version (ESV)All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they offer to the Lord, I have given them to you.

Context of Numbers 18:12

10In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to thee. 11And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them to thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer to the LORD, them have I given to thee. 13And whatever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring to the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. 14Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

Numbers 18:12 word by word

כֹּ֚ל חֵ֣לֶב יִצְהָ֔ר וְכָל־חֵ֖לֶב תִּיר֣וֹשׁ וְדָגָ֑ן רֵאשִׁיתָ֛ם אֲשֶׁר־יִתְּנ֥וּ לַֽיהוָ֖ה לְךָ֥ נְתַתִּֽים׃Read the interlinear

• bestחֵ֫לֶבcheleb chêleb · fatH2459
• oilיִצְהָרyitshâr · oilH3323
• wineתִּירוֹשׁtîyrôsh tîyrôsh · new wineH8492
• wheatדָּגָןdâgân · grainH1715
• firstfruitsרֵאשִׁיתrê'shîyth · first: beginningH7225
• offerנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• LORDיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Numbers 18:12

• Numbers 18:29Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best of it, even the hallowed part from it.
• Numbers 15:19Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering to the LORD.
• Exodus 22:29Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give to me.
• Exodus 23:19The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.
• Exodus 34:26The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother’s milk.
• Leviticus 2:14And if thou shalt offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits to the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of grain dried by the fire, even grain beaten out of full ears.
• Leviticus 23:17Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth parts: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the firstfruits to the LORD.
• Deuteronomy 18:4The firstfruit also of thy grain, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
• Deuteronomy 26:2That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
• Nehemiah 10:35And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD:

Commentaries on Numbers 18:12

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-19Verses 8-19 All believers are spiritual priests, and God has promised to take care of them. Godliness has the promise of the life that now is. And from the provision here made for the priests, the apostle shows that it is the duty of christian churches to maintain their ministers. Scandalous maintenance makes scandalous ministers. The priests were to be wholly devoted to their ministry, not diverted from it, or disturbed in it, by worldly care or…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-14The priests and Levites received support through the sacrificial system (see, for example, Leviticus 7:28–36). God's chosen representatives deserve payment for their work (compare Matthew 10:9–10; 1 Corinthians 9:3–10).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-208-13. the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of my heave offerings--A recapitulation is made in this passage of certain perquisites specially appropriated to the maintenance of the priests. They were parts of the votive and freewill offerings, including both meat and bread, wine and oil, and the first-fruits, which formed a large and valuable item.Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 18:12

• First Fruits
• Offerings
• Priest
• Wheat

In the dictionaries

• Exodus
• Fat
• Fruit
• Agrapha
• Atonement, Day of
• Best
• Chronicles, Books of
• Criticism
• Ezekiel
• First-Fruits

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