Numbers 15 · Verse 20

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.
Numbers 15:20, King James Version

Numbers 15:20 in other translations

BSBFrom 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.
WEBOf 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.
ASVOf 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.
YLTthe beginning of your dough a cake ye heave up--a heave-offering; as the heave-offering of a threshing-floor, so ye do heave it.
DARBYthe 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.
BBEOf the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.
WebsterYe shall offer a cake of the first of your dough for a heave-offering: as ye do the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.

What does Numbers 15:20 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 20 Ye shall offer - the first of your dough - Concerning the offerings of first-fruits, see the notes on Exo 22:29.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 15:1-21

Chapter Outline The law of the meat-offering and the drink-offering, The stranger under the same law. (1-21) The sacrifice for the sin of ignorance. (22-29) The punishment of presumption, The sabbath-breaker stoned. (30-36) The law for fringes on garment. (37-41) Verses 1-21 Full instructions are given about the meat-offerings and drink-offerings. The beginning of this law is very encouraging, When ye come into the…

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Numbers 15:20 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

רֵאשִׁית֙re.Shit[the] first ofH7225
עֲרִסֹ֣תֵכֶ֔ם'a.ri.So.te.Khemdough<s> yourH6182
חַלָּ֖הcha.Laha cakeH2471
תָּרִ֣ימוּta.Ri.muyou will offer upH7311
תְרוּמָ֑הte.ru.Maha contributionH8641
כִּתְרוּמַ֣תkit.ru.Matlike a contribution ofH8641
גֹּ֔רֶןGo.ren[the] threshing floorH1637
כֵּ֖ןkensoH3651
תָּרִ֥ימוּta.Ri.muyou will offer upH7311
אֹתָֽהּ\׃'o.Tah<obj.> itH853

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 15:20

  • 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 corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.

  • 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 milk.

  • 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 shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there. And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us. And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God. And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: …

  • 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 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.

  • 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 milk.

  • Proverbs 3:9-10

    Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

  • Ezekiel 44:30

    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.

  • 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 shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.

  • 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 thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

  • Matthew 6:33

    But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

  • Leviticus 23:20

    And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:20

    But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a cake.
18:12; Ex 23:19; De 26:2-10; Ne 10:37; Pr 3:9,10; Eze 44:30
Mt 6:33; Ro 11:16; 1Co 15:20; Jas 1:18; Re 14:4
the heave-offering.
Le 2:14; 23:20,16,17

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Context

  • Numbers 15:19

    Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the Lord.

  • 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.

  • Numbers 15:21

    Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord an heave offering in your generations.

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Numbers 15:20 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
De lo primero que amasareis, ofreceréis una torta en ofrenda; como la ofrenda de la era, así la ofreceréis.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
vous offrirez les prémices de votre pâte, une galette, en offrande élevée; comme l’offrande élevée de l’aire, ainsi vous l’offrirez.
German
Elberfelder 1871
als Erstling eures Schrotmehls sollt ihr einen Kuchen als Hebopfer heben; wie das Hebopfer der Tenne, also sollt ihr dieses heben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
de cibis vestris. Sicut de areis primitias separatis,