Números 15:20

20 De la primera harina molida, presenten un pan y sepárenlo como ofrenda sagrada, como lo hacen con el primer grano del campo de trillar.

Números 15:20 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 15:20

Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for] an
heave offering
Of the first dough made of the first corn that was threshed, winnowed and ground, they were to make a cake, and offer it an heave offering unto the Lord; the quantity of it is not expressed, but was left to the people's generosity; no stinted measure was fixed by the law; but according to the Scribes, or the traditions of the elders, the quantity of the cake was the twenty fourth part of the first dough that was kneaded; not the forty fourth, as Buxtorf ^F16 through mistake says; so the Targum of Jonathan,

``of the first of your dough, one out of twenty four (i.e. the twenty fourth part of it), ye shall separate a separation for the priests,''

with which agrees the Misnah ^F17, though according to that, if made to sell publicly it was the forty eighth part of it. Some, because ( Numbers 15:21 ) begins and ends with (m) , "mem", which numerically signifies "forty", think this is an instruction to a bountiful person to give the fortieth part ^F18:

as [ye do] the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall ye
heave it;
as the two wave loaves and firstfruits of their harvest, ( Leviticus 23:16 Leviticus 23:17 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Synagog. Jud. c. 34. p. 602.
F17 Challah, c. 2. sect. 7. so Schulchan Aruch, par. 2. c. 322. so Jarchi & Ben Gersom in loc.
F18 Baal Hatturim in loc.

Números 15:20 In-Context

18 «Da las siguientes instrucciones al pueblo de Israel: cuando lleguen a la tierra donde los llevo

19 y coman de los cultivos que crecen allí, separarán una parte de ellos como ofrenda sagrada al Señor
.

20 De la primera harina molida, presenten un pan y sepárenlo como ofrenda sagrada, como lo hacen con el primer grano del campo de trillar.

21 En todas las generaciones venideras, cada año, presentarán una ofrenda sagrada al Señor
de la primera harina molida.

22 »Pero supongamos que ustedes, sin intención, no llevan a cabo todos estos mandatos que el Señor
les dio por medio de Moisés.