Numbers 15:20 “From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribut…”

Numbers 15:20

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye shall offer vp a cake of the first of your dowe for an heaue offring: as the heaue offring of the barne, so ye shall lift it vp.

Darby Translation

the first of your dough shall ye offer, a cake, for a heave-offering; as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye offer this.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

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Cross references

“a cake”

Deuteronomy 26:2–10 Exodus 23:19 Nehemiah 10:37 Ezekiel 44:30 Numbers 18:12 Matthew 6:33

Deuteronomy 26:2–10 · BSB

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 Hi…

Exodus 23:19 · BSB

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.

Nehemiah 10:37 · BSB

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 be…

Ezekiel 44:30 · BSB

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.

Numbers 18:12 · BSB

I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.

Matthew 6:33 · BSB

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

“the heave-offering”

Leviticus 2:14 Leviticus 23:20 Leviticus 23:16 Leviticus 23:17

Leviticus 2:14 · BSB

If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.

Leviticus 23:20 · BSB

The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

Leviticus 23:16 · BSB

You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

Leviticus 23:17 · BSB

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.

Also

Exodus 34:26 Leviticus 23:14–17 Leviticus 23:10 Deuteronomy 14:22

Exodus 34:26 · BSB

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.”

Leviticus 23:14–17 · BSB

You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Leviticus 23:10 · BSB

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.

Deuteronomy 14:22 · BSB

You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

21Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.

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