Numbers 18:29

29 Choose the best and holiest part from what you are given as the portion you must give to the Lord.'

Numbers 18:29 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 18:29

Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of
the Lord
Not only out of their tithes, but out of whatsoever gifts were given by the Israelites to them, and out of the produce of the fields which belonged to their cities, ( Numbers 35:4 ) ; the Levites were to take a tenth, and bring it to the Lord as an heave offering; that is, they were to give it to the priests, to testify their gratitude for everything they had, and to sanctify the rest unto them, and confirm their right and title to it, and give them the free use of it:

of all the best thereof, [even] the hallowed part thereof, out of it;
which was the tenth part, for that Was holy, as Aben Ezra says, and that was to be the best of it, which was always to be given to the Lord.

Numbers 18:29 In-Context

27 I will accept your offering just as much as I accept the offerings from others, who give new grain or new wine.

28 In this way you will present an offering to the Lord as the other Israelites do. When you receive a tenth from the Israelites, you will give a tenth of that to Aaron, the priest, as the Lord's share.

29 Choose the best and holiest part from what you are given as the portion you must give to the Lord.'

30 "Say to the Levites: 'When you present the best, it will be accepted as much as the grain and wine from the other people.

31 You and your families may eat all that is left anywhere, because it is your pay for your work in the Meeting Tent.