Numbers 15:20
18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
19 and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.
From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
21 Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.
22 Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
- 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.
- WEB
- Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
- ASV
- Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.
- DARBY
- the first of your dough shall ye offer, a cake, for a heave-offering; as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye offer this.
- BLB
- [From] the first of your⁺ ground meal you⁺ shall offer up a cake [as] a contribution; as a contribution of the threshing floor, so shall you⁺ offer it up.
- ÅB
- Av det første av deres deig skal dere gi en kake som gavedere skal gi den slik som dere utreder gaven fra treskeplassen.
- OTB
- Fra det første av deres kornmel skal dere bære fram et brød som et offer; som et offer fra treskeplassen, slik skal dere bære det fram.
- B1930
- Av det første av eders deig skal I gi en kake som gave; I skal gi den likesom I utreder gaven fra treskeplassen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 2:14
If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
Read in contextExodus 34:26
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 26:2–10
you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
Read in contextNehemiah 10:37
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
Read in contextExodus 23:19
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Read in contextProverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
Read in contextEzekiel 44:30
The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.
Read in contextLeviticus 23:14–17
You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
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