Numbers 15:21

21 Throughout the generations to come, you are to present a sacred offering to the LORD each year from the first of your ground flour.

Numbers 15:21 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 15:21

Of the first of your dough shall ye give unto the Lord
As an acknowledgment of his being the sovereign Lord and possessor of heaven and earth, and of his being the owner and proprietor of the land of Canaan; and by way of thankfulness to him for the plenty of bread corn he had given them; and wherefore this cake was to he heaved or lifted up towards him in heaven, as follows:

an heave offering in your generations:
for this respected not only the first time of their entrance into the land of Canaan, but was to be observed every year when they made their first dough, and was to continue as long as the ceremonial law lasted: this cake was anciently given to the priest, which is meant by giving it to the Lord, but now the Jews take it and cast it into the fire and burn it ^F19 the apostle seems to allude to this cake of the first dough in ( Romans 11:16 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Buxtorf. ut supra, (Synagog. Jud. c. 34. p. 602.) & Leo Modena, History of the present Jews, par. 2. c. 9.

Numbers 15:21 In-Context

19 and you eat the crops that grow there, you must set some aside as a sacred offering to the LORD .

20 Present a cake from the first of the flour you grind, and set it aside as a sacred offering, as you do with the first grain from the threshing floor.

21 Throughout the generations to come, you are to present a sacred offering to the LORD each year from the first of your ground flour.

22 “But suppose you unintentionally fail to carry out all these commands that the LORD has given you through Moses.

23 And suppose your descendants in the future fail to do everything the LORD has commanded through Moses.