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

10You are to eat it as most holy. Every male may eat it— it is set apart for you. 11This also is yours: the gift of the wave offerings of Bnei-Yisrael. I have given all the wave offerings as a permanent share to you, your sons and your daughters. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. All the finest olive oil, the finest new wine and grain they give to Adonai from their firstfruits, I have given them to you. 13All the firstfruits of the land that they bring to Adonai will be for yours. Anyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 14Every devoted thing in Israel is yours.

Numbers 18:12 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• All the bestחֵ֫לֶבcheleb chêleb · fatH2459
• of the oilיִצְהָרyitshâr · oilH3323
• of the wineתִּירוֹשׁtîyrôsh tîyrôsh · new wineH8492
• and of the wheatדָּגָןdâgân · grainH1715
• the firstfruitsרֵאשִׁיתrê'shîyth · first: beginningH7225
• of them which they shall offerנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• unto the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Numbers 18:12

• Numbers 18:29From all your gifts that you receive, you are to present the best and holiest from them as Adonai’s portion.
• Numbers 15:19and you eat some of the food of the land, you are to offer a portion to Adonai.
• Exodus 22:29“Do the same with your cattle and with your sheep. For seven days it is to be with its mother, and on the eighth day you are to give it to Me.
• 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.
• Exodus 34:26“You are to bring the choicest firstfruits of your land to the House of Adonai your God. “You must not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”
• 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 23:17You are to bring out of your houses two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They are to be baked with hametz as firstfruits to Adonai.
• Deuteronomy 18:4The firstfruits of your grain, of your new wine, of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you are to give him.
• 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 10:35“We—the kohanim, the Levites and the people—have cast lots concerning the offering of wood, to bring it into the House of our God according to our ancestral house at the appointed times year by year to burn on the altar of Adonai, our God, as it is written in the Torah.

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