Your offering shall be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat.
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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 6
- Num 18:30“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
- Num 15:20Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
- Lev 6:19–23Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Deut 15:14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
- 2 Kgs 6:27He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
- Hos 9:1–2Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
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