Numbers 18:27

27 Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

Numbers 18:27 in Other Translations

27 And 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.

27 And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

27 The LORD will consider this offering to be your harvest offering, as though it were the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress.

27 Your offerings will be treated the same as other people's gifts of grain from the threshing floor or wine from the wine vat.

27 Your offering will be credited to you as if [it were your] grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress.

Numbers 18:27 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 18:27

And [this] your heave offering
The tithe of the tithe, which though not properly heaved or lifted up, as the heave offerings, strictly so called, were, any more than the tithe itself, ( Numbers 18:24 ) ; yet is so called, because separated to the use and service of the Lord, as they were:

shall be reckoned unto you, as though [it were] the corn of the
threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress;
that is, it should be as acceptable to God as if they had fields and vineyards, threshing floors, and wine presses of their own, from whence corn and wine were taken, as the Israelites when they received their tithes from them; and what remained they had as good a right unto, and might make use of as their own, as well as they; see ( Numbers 18:30 ) .

Numbers 18:27 In-Context

25 The LORD said to Moses,

26 “Speak to the Levites and say to them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe I give you as your inheritance, you must present a tenth of that tithe as the LORD’s offering.

27 Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

28 In this way you also will present an offering to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites. From these tithes you must give the LORD’s portion to Aaron the priest.

29 You must present as the LORD’s portion the best and holiest part of everything given to you.’

Cross References

• 1. Leviticus 7:18
• 2. Genesis 50:10; Deuteronomy 15:14; Judges 6:37; Ru 3:3,6,14; 1 Samuel 23:1
• 3. ver 12,30