Numbers 18 · Verse 12

Numbers 18:12

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.
Numbers 18:12, King James Version

Numbers 18:12 in other translations

BSBI give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
WEB“I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the LORD.
ASVAll the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give unto Jehovah, to thee have I given them.
YLTall the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat--their first- fruits which they give to Jehovah--to thee I have given them.
DARBYAll the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they give to Jehovah, have I given thee.
BBEAll the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
WebsterAll the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first-fruits of them which they shall offer to the LORD, them have I given to thee.

What does Numbers 18:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 18:8-13

Nu 18:8-20. The Priests' Portion. 8-13. 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.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 18:8-19

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…

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Numbers 18:12 in the original Hebrew

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כֹּ֚לkolallH3605
חֵ֣לֶבChe.lev[the] best ofH2459
יִצְהָ֔רyitz.Har[the] fresh oilH3323
וְכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
חֵ֖לֶבChe.lev[the] best ofH2459
תִּיר֣וֹשׁti.Ro.osh[the] new wineH8492
וְדָגָ֑ןve.da.Ganand grainH1715
רֵאשִׁיתָ֛םre.shi.Tamfirst [fruit] theirH7225
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whichH834
יִתְּנ֥וּyi.te.Nuthey will giveH5414
לַֽיהוָ֖הla.Yah.wehto YahwehH3068
לְךָ֥le.Khato <the> you
נְתַתִּֽים\׃ne.ta.TimI give themH5414

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

Cross references for Numbers 18:12

  • 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.

  • Deuteronomy 18:4

    The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Leviticus 23:17

    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.

  • Deuteronomy 26:2

    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.

  • Nehemiah 10:35-37

    And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord: Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God: 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.

  • 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.

  • Exodus 22:29

    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.

  • Numbers 15:19-21

    Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the Lord. 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. Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord an heave offering in your generations.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
best of the oil. Heb. fat.
29
the first-fruits.
15:19-21; Ex 22:29; 23:19; 34:26; Le 2:14; 23:17,20; De 18:4
De 26:2; Ne 10:35-37

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Context

  • Numbers 18:11

    And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

  • Numbers 18:12

    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.

  • Numbers 18:13

    And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

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Numbers 18:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
De aceite, y de mosto, y de trigo, todo lo más escogido, las primicias de ello, que presentarán á Jehová, á ti las he dado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tout le meilleur de l’huile et tout le meilleur du moût et du froment, les prémices qu’ils donneront à l’ Éternel, je te les donne.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Alles Beste vom Öl und alles Beste vom Most und Getreide, ihre Erstlinge, die sie Jehova geben, dir habe ich sie gegeben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Omnem medullam olei, et vini, ac frumenti, quidquid offerunt primitiarum Domino, tibi dedi.