Numbers 18:27
What does Numbers 18:27 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 18:27 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and your heave-offering hath been reckoned to you as corn from the threshing-floor, and as fulness from the wine-vat;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of firstfruits, as well of the barnfloors as of the winepresses:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And your heave-offering shall be reckoned unto you, as the corn from the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Context
v.26Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.
v.27This passage
v.28Thus ye also shall offer a heave-offering unto Jehovah of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and thereof ye shall give Jehovah’s heave-offering to Aaron the priest.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
- Leviticus 6:19
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
- Deuteronomy 15:14
thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
- 2 Kings 6:27
And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?
- Numbers 15:20
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.
- Numbers 18:30
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye heave the best thereof from it, then it shall be reckoned unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
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