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Selected Verse: Numbers 15:20 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 15:20 |
King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Dough - "Coarse meal" Neh 10:37; Eze 44:30. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The threshing floor - That is, of the corn in the threshing floor, when you have gathered in your corn. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Ye shall offer - the first of your dough - Concerning the offerings of first-fruits, see the notes on Exo 22:29. |
30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
37 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.