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like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/numbers/15.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/numbers/15.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough <i>for</i> an heave offering: as <i>ye do</i> the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/numbers/15.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal <i>as</i> a heave offering; as a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/numbers/15.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a loaf as an offering; as an offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/numbers/15.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8216Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/numbers/15.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/numbers/15.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Of the first of your dough you shall raise up a cake as a contribution offering; as the contribution offering of the threshing floor, so you shall raise it up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/numbers/15.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />You shall lift up a cake <i>made</i> of the first of your [ground grain which has been made into] dough as an offering [to the Lord]; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you lift it up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/numbers/15.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/numbers/15.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/numbers/15.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/numbers/15.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />From the first batch of bread dough that you make after each new grain harvest, make a loaf of bread and offer it to me, just as you offer grain. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/numbers/15.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/numbers/15.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Shape one part of your dough into a ring the same way you do with the contribution you make from the threshing floor. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/numbers/15.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to the LORD. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/numbers/15.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />You are to offer a cake made from the first of your bread dough as a raised offering to the LORD. Offer it as a raised offering right off your threshing floor. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/numbers/15.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/numbers/15.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/numbers/15.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Of 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/numbers/15.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Ye shall offer a cake of the first of your dough for a heave-offering: as ye do the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/numbers/15.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Of 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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/numbers/15.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />you raise up a cake of the first of your dough [as] a raised-offering; as the raised-offering of a threshing-floor, so you raise it up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/numbers/15.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> the beginning of your dough a cake ye heave up -- a heave-offering; as the heave-offering of a threshing-floor, so ye do heave it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/numbers/15.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The first of your groats, a cake, shall ye lift up a lifting up; as the lifting up of the threshing floor, so shall ye lift it up.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/numbers/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/numbers/15.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />from the foods that you eat. Just as you separate the first-fruits of your threshing floors,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/numbers/15.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />A round loaf from your first batch of dough you shall offer as a contribution. Just like a contribution from the threshing floor you shall offer it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/numbers/15.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />From your first batch of dough you shall present a loaf as a donation; you shall present it just as you present a donation from the threshing floor.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/numbers/15.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough as an offering to the LORD; as you make the offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/numbers/15.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Offer a cake from the best of your dough as an offering to LORD JEHOVAH, as an offering of the threshing floor; offer it in this way.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/numbers/15.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Of the first of your dough ye shall set apart a cake for a gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall ye set it apart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/numbers/15.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Ye shall offer your bread a heave-offering: as a heave-offering from the threshing-floor, so shall ye separate it,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/numbers/15-20.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yauBFvKLNNo?start=4826" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/numbers/15.htm">Laws about Offerings</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">19</span>and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD. <span class="reftext">20</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7225.htm" title="7225: rê·šîṯ (N-fsc) -- Beginning, chief. From the same as ro'sh; the first, in place, time, order or rank.">From the first</a> <a href="/hebrew/6182.htm" title="6182: ‘ă·ri·sō·ṯê·ḵem (N-fpc:: 2mp) -- Perhaps coarse meal. From an unused root meaning to comminute; meal.">of your dough,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7311.htm" title="7311: tā·rî·mū (V-Hifil-Imperf-2mp) -- To be high or exalted, rise. A primitive root; to be high actively, to rise or raise.">you are to lift</a> <a href="/hebrew/2471.htm" title="2471: ḥal·lāh (N-fs) -- A cake (a type used in offerings). From chalal; a cake.">up a cake</a> <a href="/hebrew/8641.htm" title="8641: ṯə·rū·māh (N-fs) -- Contribution, offering (for sacred uses). Or trumah; from ruwm; a present, especially in sacrifice or as tribute.">as a contribution;</a> <a href="/hebrew/7311.htm" title="7311: tā·rî·mū (V-Hifil-Imperf-2mp) -- To be high or exalted, rise. A primitive root; to be high actively, to rise or raise.">offer</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯāh (DirObjM:: 3fs) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">it</a> <a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: kên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">just like</a> <a href="/hebrew/8641.htm" title="8641: kiṯ·rū·maṯ (Prep-k:: N-fsc) -- Contribution, offering (for sacred uses). Or trumah; from ruwm; a present, especially in sacrifice or as tribute.">an offering</a> <a href="/hebrew/1637.htm" title="1637: gō·ren (N-fs) -- Threshing floor. From an unused root meaning to smooth; a threshing- floor; by analogy, any open area.">from the threshing floor.</a> </span><span class="reftext">21</span>Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/23-19.htm">Exodus 23:19</a></span><br />Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/26-1.htm">Deuteronomy 26:1-2</a></span><br />When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it, / you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/23-17.htm">Leviticus 23:17</a></span><br />Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/10-37.htm">Nehemiah 10:37</a></span><br />Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/3-9.htm">Proverbs 3:9</a></span><br />Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/44-30.htm">Ezekiel 44:30</a></span><br />The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/31-5.htm">2 Chronicles 31:5</a></span><br />As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-4.htm">Deuteronomy 18:4</a></span><br />You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/2-14.htm">Leviticus 2:14</a></span><br />If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/34-26.htm">Exodus 34:26</a></span><br />Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-16.htm">Romans 11:16</a></span><br />If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-20.htm">1 Corinthians 15:20</a></span><br />But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/1-18.htm">James 1:18</a></span><br />He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">1 Corinthians 5:7-8</a></span><br />Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/6-20.htm">Hebrews 6:20</a></span><br />where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as you do the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.</p><p class="hdg">a cake</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/18-12.htm">Numbers 18:12</a></b></br> All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/23-19.htm">Exodus 23:19</a></b></br> The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/26-2.htm">Deuteronomy 26:2-10</a></b></br> That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put <i>it</i> in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there… </p><p class="hdg">the heave-offering</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/2-14.htm">Leviticus 2:14</a></b></br> And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, <i>even</i> corn beaten out of full ears.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/23-20.htm">Leviticus 23:20,16,17</a></b></br> And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits <i>for</i> a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/numbers/15-19.htm">Apart</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-39.htm">Beginning</a> <a href="/numbers/11-8.htm">Cake</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-4.htm">Coarse</a> <a href="/exodus/12-39.htm">Dough</a> <a href="/numbers/15-19.htm">Heave</a> <a href="/numbers/15-19.htm">Heave-Offering</a> <a href="/numbers/15-19.htm">Present</a> <a href="/genesis/42-30.htm">Rough</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-5.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/genesis/50-10.htm">Threshingfloor</a> <a href="/exodus/22-29.htm">Threshing-Floor</a> <a href="/numbers/15-19.htm">Wave</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/16-31.htm">Apart</a> <a href="/numbers/15-21.htm">Beginning</a> <a href="/judges/7-13.htm">Cake</a> <a href="/numbers/15-21.htm">Coarse</a> <a href="/numbers/15-21.htm">Dough</a> <a href="/numbers/15-21.htm">Heave</a> <a href="/numbers/15-21.htm">Heave-Offering</a> <a href="/numbers/15-27.htm">Present</a> <a href="/numbers/15-21.htm">Rough</a> <a href="/numbers/18-27.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/numbers/18-27.htm">Threshingfloor</a> <a href="/numbers/18-27.htm">Threshing-Floor</a> <a href="/numbers/15-21.htm">Wave</a><div class="vheading2">Numbers 15</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/15-1.htm">The law of the meat offering, and the drink offering</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/15-14.htm">The stranger is under the same law</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/15-17.htm">The law of the first of the dough</a></span><br><span class="reftext">22. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/15-22.htm">The sacrifice for sins of ignorance</a></span><br><span class="reftext">30. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/15-30.htm">The punishment of presumption</a></span><br><span class="reftext">32. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/15-32.htm">He who violated the Sabbath is stoned</a></span><br><span class="reftext">37. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/15-37.htm">The law of tassels</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/numbers/15.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/numbers/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/numbers/15.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>From the first of your dough</b><br>This phrase refers to the practice of offering the first portion of dough made from the grain harvest. Biblically, the concept of "firstfruits" is significant, symbolizing the dedication of the first and best to God. This practice is rooted in the idea that all provisions come from God, and by offering the first portion, the Israelites acknowledged His sovereignty and provision. The firstfruits were a sign of gratitude and trust in God's continued provision.<p><b>you are to lift up a cake as a contribution</b><br>The act of lifting up a cake signifies a wave offering, a common practice in ancient Israelite worship. This offering was a physical act of presenting something to God, symbolizing the elevation of the offering to a higher, divine purpose. The cake, made from the first of the dough, was a tangible expression of devotion and obedience to God's commandments. This practice also served to support the Levitical priesthood, as these offerings were part of their sustenance.<p><b>offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor</b><br>The comparison to an offering from the threshing floor connects this practice to the broader system of agricultural offerings. The threshing floor was where grain was processed, and offerings from it were a common part of Israelite worship. This connection emphasizes the continuity and consistency in the types of offerings God required, whether from the field or the kitchen. It also highlights the principle that all aspects of life, from agriculture to daily sustenance, are under God's domain and should be dedicated to Him. This practice foreshadows the ultimate offering of Jesus Christ, who is often seen as the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep (<a href="/1_corinthians/15-20.htm">1 Corinthians 15:20</a>), symbolizing the beginning of a new creation and the ultimate dedication to God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The leader of the Israelites who received the laws from God and communicated them to the people.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God who were given the law to follow as they journeyed to the Promised Land.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/p/promised_land.htm">Promised Land</a></b><br>The land of Canaan, which God promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/threshing_floor.htm">Threshing Floor</a></b><br>A place where grain was separated from the chaff, symbolizing the provision and blessing of God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/o/offering.htm">Offering</a></b><br>A portion of the first fruits given to God as an act of worship and acknowledgment of His provision.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/a/acknowledgment_of_god's_provision.htm">Acknowledgment of God's Provision</a></b><br>The act of offering the first of the dough is a tangible acknowledgment of God's provision and blessings. It reminds believers to recognize God as the source of all good things in their lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/principle_of_first_fruits.htm">Principle of First Fruits</a></b><br>The principle of first fruits teaches believers to prioritize God in their lives. By giving the first and best to God, we demonstrate trust in His continued provision.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/w/worship_through_giving.htm">Worship through Giving</a></b><br>Offering the first of the dough is an act of worship. It is a way to honor God and express gratitude for His faithfulness and generosity.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_the_threshing_floor.htm">Symbolism of the Threshing Floor</a></b><br>The threshing floor symbolizes a place of separation and preparation. In our spiritual lives, we are called to separate ourselves from sin and prepare our hearts for God's work.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/christ_as_the_first_fruits.htm">Christ as the First Fruits</a></b><br>Just as the Israelites offered the first fruits, Christ is the first fruits of the resurrection, assuring believers of their future resurrection and eternal life.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_numbers_15.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Numbers 15</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_miriam's_death_so_brief.htm">Numbers 20:1 - Why is Miriam's death recorded so briefly, with no details about her mourning or burial, unlike other prominent figures?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_sabbath-breaking_punished_severely.htm">Why does Exodus 20:8-11 mandate strict Sabbath observance, yet elsewhere in Scripture (e.g., Numbers 15:32-36) the penalty for Sabbath-breaking appears more severe?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_commend_phinehas_for_killing.htm">Numbers 25:6-8: Why does God commend Phinehas for killing an Israelite man and a Midianite woman, raising moral questions about vigilante violence?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_defines_the_faith_of_the_gospel.htm">What does the Bible say about our lifespan?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/15.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(20) <span class= "bld">Of the first of your dough.--</span>Or, <span class= "ital">mixed meal. </span>The word <span class= "ital">arisoth </span>is used only in the plural number, and is found only in <a href="/nehemiah/10-37.htm" title="And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.">Nehemiah 10:37</a> and <a href="/ezekiel/44-30.htm" title="And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in your house.">Ezekiel 44:30</a>, besides this and the following verse.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/numbers/15.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 20.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">A</span> <span class="cmt_word">cake of the first of your</span> <span class="cmt_word">dough.</span> <span class="hebrew">עַרִסֹת</span>, only used here and in the two passages which refer to this enactment (Nehemiah 10:87; <a href="/ezekiel/44-30.htm">Ezekiel 44:30</a>). It probably means whole meal coarsely ground, the first preparation of the new corn available for baking and eating. Septuagint has <span class="greek">ἀπαρχὴ</span> <span class="greek">φυράματος</span>, an expression used by St. Paul in <a href="/romans/11-16.htm">Romans 11:16</a>. <span class="cmt_word">As... the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall ye heave it,</span> <span class="accented">i.e.,<span class="cmt_word"></span></span> the offering of bread from the home was to be made in addition to the offering of ears or grains from the threshing-floor, and in the same manner. No doubt this latter offering was a very ancient (<a href="/genesis/4-3.htm">Genesis 4:3</a>) and general one, but it is not clearly described in the Law (see, however, <a href="/leviticus/2-14.htm">Leviticus 2:14</a>; <a href="/leviticus/23-10.htm">Leviticus 23:10</a>). All these heave offerings were the perquisite of the priest. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/numbers/15-20.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">From the first</span><br /><span class="heb">רֵאשִׁית֙</span> <span class="translit">(rê·šîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7225.htm">Strong's 7225: </a> </span><span class="str2">The first, in place, time, order, rank</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of your dough,</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲרִסֹ֣תֵכֶ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·ri·sō·ṯê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6182.htm">Strong's 6182: </a> </span><span class="str2">Perhaps coarse meal</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you are to lift</span><br /><span class="heb">תָּרִ֣ימוּ</span> <span class="translit">(tā·rî·mū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7311.htm">Strong's 7311: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be high actively, to rise, raise</span><br /><br /><span class="word">up a cake</span><br /><span class="heb">חַלָּ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(ḥal·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2471.htm">Strong's 2471: </a> </span><span class="str2">A cake (a type used in offerings)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as a contribution;</span><br /><span class="heb">תְרוּמָ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(ṯə·rū·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8641.htm">Strong's 8641: </a> </span><span class="str2">Contribution, offering (for sacred uses)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">offer</span><br /><span class="heb">תָּרִ֥ימוּ</span> <span class="translit">(tā·rî·mū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7311.htm">Strong's 7311: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be high actively, to rise, raise</span><br /><br /><span class="word">it</span><br /><span class="heb">אֹתָֽהּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ō·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Direct object marker | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> </span><span class="str2">Untranslatable mark of the accusative case</span><br /><br /><span class="word">just like</span><br /><span class="heb">כֵּ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(kên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> </span><span class="str2">So -- thus</span><br /><br /><span class="word">an offering</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּתְרוּמַ֣ת</span> <span class="translit">(kiṯ·rū·maṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8641.htm">Strong's 8641: </a> </span><span class="str2">Contribution, offering (for sacred uses)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from the threshing floor.</span><br /><span class="heb">גֹּ֔רֶן</span> <span class="translit">(gō·ren)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1637.htm">Strong's 1637: </a> </span><span class="str2">A threshing-floor, open area</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/numbers/15-20.htm">Numbers 15:20 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/numbers/15-20.htm">OT Law: Numbers 15:20 Of the first of your dough you (Nu Num.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/numbers/15-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 15:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 15:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/numbers/15-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 15:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 15:21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>