Numbers 18:29
Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
Numbers 18:29 in other translations
| BSB | You must present the offering due the LORD from all the best of every gift, the holiest part of it.’ |
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| WEB | Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to the LORD, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’ |
| ASV | Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of Jehovah, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. |
| YLT | out of all your gifts ye do lift up the whole heave-offering of Jehovah; out of all its fat, --its hallowed part--out of it. |
| DARBY | Out of all that is given you ye shall offer the whole heave-offering of Jehovah, — of all the best thereof the hallowed part thereof. |
| BBE | From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord. |
| Webster | Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of the LORD, of all the best of it, even its hallowed part out of it. |
What does Numbers 18:29 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…
Numbers 18:29 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- 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.
- Numbers 18:29
Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
- 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.
Numbers 18:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | De todos vuestros dones ofreceréis toda ofrenda á Jehová; de todo lo mejor de ellos ofreceréis la porción que ha de ser consagrada. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | De toutes les choses qui vous sont données, vous offrirez toute l’offrande élevée de l’ Éternel, – de tout le meilleur, la partie sanctifiée. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Von allem euch Gegebenen sollt ihr alles Hebopfer Jehovas heben, von allem Besten desselben das Geheiligte davon. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Omnia quæ offeretis ex decimis, et in donaria Domini separabitis, optima et electa erunt. |