Numbers 15:20

What does Numbers 15:20 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 15:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Of 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Of 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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Of 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.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

the 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.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

the 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.

Context

v.19then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave-offering unto Jehovah.

v.20This passage

v.21Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 23:19

    The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

  • Exodus 34:26

    The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

  • Leviticus 23:14

    And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Ezekiel 44:30

    And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give unto the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.

  • Revelation 14:4

    These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.

  • Proverbs 3:9

    Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:

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