Numbers 15:20

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
up	תָּרִ֣ימוּ ta.Ri.mu	H7311	to be high actively · verb, hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural
cake	חַלָּ֖ה cha.Lah	H2471	a cake (as usually punctured) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
first	רֵאשִׁית֙ re.Shit	H7225	the first · noun, common feminine singular construct
dough	עֲרִסֹ֣תֵכֶ֔ם 'a.ri.So.te.Khem	H6182	meal · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
offering	תְרוּמָ֑ה te.ru.Mah	H8641	a present (as offered up) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
offering	כִּתְרוּמַ֣ת kit.ru.Mat	H8641	a present (as offered up) · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
threshingfloor	גֹּ֔רֶן Go.ren	H1637	a threshing-floor (as made even) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
heave	תָּרִ֥ימוּ ta.Ri.mu	H7311	to be high actively · verb, hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Leviticus 2:14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of…
Exodus 34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s mi…
Deuteronomy 26:2-10 That 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 s…
Exodus 23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s mi…
Leviticus 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereo…
Leviticus 23:14-17 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it…
Nehemiah 10:37 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…
Proverbs 3:9-10 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:1-21

Here we have, I. Full instructions given concerning the meat-offerings and drink-offerings, which were appendages to all the sacrifices of animals. The beginning of this law is very encouraging: When you come into the land of your habitation which I give unto you, they you shall do so and so, Num 15:2. This was a plain intimation, not only that God was reconciled to them notwithstanding the sentence he had passed upon them, but that he would secure the promised land to their seed notwithstanding their proneness to rebel against him. They might think some time or other they should be guilty of a misdemeanour that would be fatal to them, and would exclude them for ever, as the last had done fo…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 15:20

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.

John Gill on Numbers 15:20

Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering,.... Of the first dough made of the first corn that was threshed, winnowed and ground, they were to make a cake, and offer it an heave offering unto the Lord; the quantity of it is not expressed, but was left to the people's generosity; no stinted measure was fixed by the law; but according to the Scribes, or the traditions of the elders, the quantity of the cake was the twenty fourth part of the first dough that was kneaded; not the forty fourth, as Buxtorf (p) through mistake says; so the Targum of Jonathan,"of the first of your dough, one out of twenty four (i.e. the twenty fourth part of it), ye shall separate a se…

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John Calvin on Numbers 15:17-21

Numbers 15:17-21 17. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 17. Loquutus est Jehova ad Mosen, dicendo, 18. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you; 18. Alloquere filios Israel, et dicas els: Quum ingressi fueritis terram ad quam ego introduco Vos. 19. Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave-offering unto the Lord. 19. Tum fiet, quum incipietis comedere de pane terrae, offeretis in oblationem Jehovae. 20. Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave-offering: as ye do the heave-offering of the thrashing-floor, so shall ye heave it. 20. De primitiis consper…

The Church Fathers

The holy movements of our senses, which are according to virtues, themselves are the firstfruits of a spiritual ark: therefore they are likened to a rural ark, in which the corn is winnowed. For just as wheat and barley are separated from the chaff when threshed in this rural area and, as they are repeatedly winnowed, the chaff and other impurities of the harvest are scattered by the gentle breath of the air in different directions, but those which are more solid fall back into the same place after the dust is shaken out, so the fruits of our thoughts, which are solid and excellent, present a pure and sincere nourishment of virtue, as it is written: "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word of God."
— Ambrose of Milan, On Cain and Abel

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Dictionary and topics

First-fruits — The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals. The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be…
Heave offering — Heb. terumah, (Ex. 29:27) means simply an offering, a present, including all the offerings made by the Israelites as a present. This Hebrew word is frequently employed. Some of the rabbis attach to…
Sacrifice — The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by…
Bread · First fruit of, offered to God — First fruit of, offered to God
Dough · First of, offered to God — First of, offered to God
First Fruits · As a heave offering — As a heave offering
Heave-Offering · Consisted of: First fruits of bread — Consisted of: First fruits of bread

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Numbers 15:20

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:1-21

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 15:20

John Gill on Numbers 15:20

John Calvin on Numbers 15:17-21

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Numbers 15:20

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:1-21

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 15:20

John Gill on Numbers 15:20

John Calvin on Numbers 15:17-21

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Numbers 15:1-31

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 15:17-21

Rashi on Numbers 15:20