27And 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.
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Therefore 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.
Ye 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.
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, …
Thou 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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-32)Here is a further account of the provision that was made both for the Levites and for the priests, out of the country. I. They must have no inheritance in the land ; only cities to dwell in were afterwards allowed them, but no ground to occupy: Thou shalt not have any part among them , Num. 18:20. It is repeated again Num. 18:23; and again Num. 18:24; Among the children of Israel they shall have n…
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