Numbers 18:29

What does Numbers 18:29 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 18:29 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

All the things that you shall offer of the tithes, and shall separate for the gifts of the Lord, shall be the best and choicest things.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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.

Context

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.

v.29This passage

v.30Therefore 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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