Numbers 18 · Verse 27

Numbers 18:27

And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Numbers 18:27, King James Version

Numbers 18:27 in other translations

BSBYour offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
WEBYour wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
ASVAnd your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the grain of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
YLTand your heave-offering hath been reckoned to you as corn from the threshing-floor, and as fulness from the wine-vat;
DARBYAnd your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as the corn from the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
BBEAnd this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.
WebsterAnd this your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fullness of the wine-press.

What does Numbers 18:27 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 18:20-32

As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in ver. #(31), the way to have…

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Numbers 18:27 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.

וְנֶחְשַׁ֥בve.nech.Shavand it will be reckonedH2803
לָכֶ֖םla.Khemto <the> you
תְּרוּמַתְכֶ֑םte.ru.mat.Khemcontribution yourH8641
כַּדָּגָן֙ka.da.Ganlike the grainH1715
מִן\־min-fromH4480
הַגֹּ֔רֶןha.Go.renthe threshing floorH1637
וְכַֽמְלֵאָ֖הve.kham.le.'Ahand like the full produceH4395
מִן\־min-fromH4480
הַיָּֽקֶב\׃hai.Ya.kevthe wine-pressH3342

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Cross references for Numbers 18:27

  • Numbers 18:30

    Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

  • Leviticus 6:19-23

    And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the Lord in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the Lord. And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the Lord; it shall be wholly burnt. …

  • Deuteronomy 15:14

    Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

  • Hosea 9:1-2

    Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

  • 2 Kings 6:27

    And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

  • 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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as though.
Le 6:19-23
the corn.
30; 15:20; De 15:14; 2Ki 6:27; Ho 9:1,2

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Context

  • Numbers 18:26

    Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.

  • Numbers 18:27

    And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

  • Numbers 18:28

    Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the Lord’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.

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Numbers 18:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y se os contará vuestra ofrenda como grano de la era, y como acopio del lagar.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et votre offrande élevée vous sera comptée comme le froment pris de l’aire, et comme l’abondance du moût pris de la cuve.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und euer Hebopfer wird euch gerechnet werden wie das Getreide von der Tenne und wie die Fülle von der Kelter.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
ut reputetur vobis in oblationem primitivorum, tam de areis quam de torcularibus: