And 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.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
- BSB Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
- NKJV And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress.
- NASB Your offering shall be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.
- NLT The Lord will consider this offering to be your harvest offering, as though it were the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress.
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Quick answer
The Levites' offering would be credited to them as if it were their own grain and wine from threshing floor and winepress.
Overview
God graciously regarded the Levites' tithe of the tithe as equivalent to a farmer's offering of his crops, even though the Levites had no fields. This counts their gift as a genuine, accepted offering. It reflects God's grace in accepting the worship of His servants on the same footing as that of the landed Israelites.
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 18:30Therefore 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.
- Num 15:20Ye 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.
- Lev 6:19–23And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- Deut 15:14Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
- 2 Kgs 6:27And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
- Hos 9:1–2Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
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