Numbers 18:28

What does Numbers 18:28 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 18:28 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thus 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thus 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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

so ye do lift up--ye also--the heave-offering of Jehovah from all your tithes which ye receive from the sons of Israel; and ye have given from it the heave-offering of Jehovah to Aaron the priest;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the firstfruits to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Thus ye also shall offer Jehovah's heave-offering of all your tithes, which ye take of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof Jehovah's heave-offering to Aaron the priest.

Context

v.27And 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.

v.28This passage

v.29Out 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.

Cross references

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

  • Hebrews 6:20

    whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Genesis 14:18

    And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

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