Tree of Life Version
Numbers 15:20
20You are to offer a cake from the first of your ground-up meal as an offering from your threshing floor—so you are to lift it up.
Numbers 15:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Present a loaf from the first of your ground meal and present it as an offering from the threshing floor.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.
Context of Numbers 15:20
18“Speak to Bnei-Yisrael. Say to them: When you enter the land to which I am taking you, 19and you eat some of the food of the land, you are to offer a portion to Adonai. You are to offer a cake from the first of your ground-up meal as an offering from your threshing floor—so you are to lift it up. 21Throughout your generations to come, you are to give this offering from the first of your ground-up meal. 22“If you unintentionally fail, not keeping any of these mitzvot that Adonai related to Moses
Read all of Numbers 15Numbers 15:20 word by word
רֵאשִׁית֙ עֲרִסֹ֣תֵכֶ֔ם חַלָּ֖ה תָּרִ֣ימוּ תְרוּמָ֑ה כִּתְרוּמַ֣ת גֹּ֔רֶן כֵּ֖ן תָּרִ֥ימוּ אֹתָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Numbers 15:20
- Numbers 18:12All the finest olive oil, the finest new wine and grain they give to Adonai from their firstfruits, I have given them to you.
- Exodus 23:19Bring the choicest firstfruits of your land into the House of Adonai your God. “Do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
- Deuteronomy 26:2you are to take some of the first of all the produce of the soil, which you gather from your land that Adonai your God is giving you, put it in a basket and go to the place Adonai your God chooses to make His Name dwell.
- Nehemiah 10:37and the firstborn of our sons and our livestock as written in the Torah; the firstborn of our cattle and our sheep to the House of our God—to the kohanim ministering in the House of our God;
- Proverbs 3:9Honor Adonai with your wealth and with the first of your entire harvest.
- Ezekiel 44:30The first of all the firstfruits of everything and every offering of every kind from all your offerings will belong to the kohanim. You will also give the kohen the first of your dough, to make a blessing to rest on your house.
- Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
- Romans 11:16If the firstfruit is holy, so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20But now Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
- James 1:18By His will, He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.
- Revelation 14:4These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been redeemed from among mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb.
- Leviticus 2:14“If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to Adonai, you are to present for the grain offering of your firstfruits of fresh ears of barley, scorched with fire—crushed grain of fresh ears.
- Leviticus 23:20The kohen is to wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Adonai, with the two lambs. They should be holy to Adonai for the kohen.
Commentaries on Numbers 15:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Ye shall offer - the first of your dough - Concerning the offerings of first-fruits, see the notes on Exodus 22:29.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Dough - “Coarse meal” Nehemiah 10:37; Ezekiel 44:30.Read the comment
- 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. 2020. heave offering of the threshing-floor--meaning the corn on the threshing-floor; that is, after harvest. so shall ye heave it--to the priests accompanying the ceremony with the same rites.Read the comment
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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
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