Numbers 18:28

28 In this way you will set aside a gift for ADONAI from all your tenths that you receive from the people of Isra'el, and from these tenths you are to give to Aharon the cohen the gift set aside for ADONAI.

Numbers 18:28 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 18:28

Thus you also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord,
&c.] As the Israelites did when they paid tithes to them, ( Numbers 18:24 ) ;

of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel;
which heave offering was a tenth part of them:

and ye shall give thereof the Lord's heave offering to Aaron the
priest;
that is, the said tenth part of the tithe was to be given not to Aaron only, as the high priest, as some have thought, and so to his successors in the high priesthood; but to him and his sons, even to all the priests in common, the high priest having his share of it; and Josephus ^F15 is clear for it, that the tithe of the annual fruits was paid to the Levites, and to the priests. Hecataeus, an Heathen writer, who lived in the times of Alexander the great, says ^F16, that all the priests of the Jews received the tenth of whatsoever was produced, and ministered things in common, and were 1500 in number.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Antiqu. l. 4. c. 4. sect. 3.
F16 Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. sect. 22.

Numbers 18:28 In-Context

26 "Tell the L'vi'im, 'When you take from the people of Isra'el the tenth of the produce which I have given you from them as your inheritance, you are to set aside from it a gift for ADONAI, one tenth of the tenth.

27 The gift you set aside will be accounted to you as if it were grain from the thresh-ing-floor and grape juice from the wine vat.

28 In this way you will set aside a gift for ADONAI from all your tenths that you receive from the people of Isra'el, and from these tenths you are to give to Aharon the cohen the gift set aside for ADONAI.

29 From everything given to you, you are to set aside all that is due ADONAI, the best part of it, its holy portion.'

30 "Therefore you are to tell them, 'When you set aside from it its best part, it will be accounted to the L'vi'im as if it were grain from the threshing-floor and grape juice from the wine vat.