Numbers 15:21

21 Throughout the generations to come you are to give this offering to the LORD from the first of your ground meal.

Numbers 15:21 in Other Translations

21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.

21 Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD as a contribution throughout your generations.

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.

21 Down through the future generations make this offering to God from each first batch of dough.

21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.

21 For generations to come, you must give one part of your dough as a contribution to the LORD.

21 Throughout your generations, you are to give the Lord a contribution from the first batch of your dough.

21 You must bring the offering to the Lord. You must give it from the first grain you grind. You must do it for all time to come.

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 food of the land, present a portion as an offering to the LORD.

20 Present a loaf from the first of your ground meal and present it as an offering from the threshing floor.

21 Throughout the generations to come you are to give this offering to the LORD from the first of your ground meal.

22 “ ‘Now if you as a community unintentionally fail to keep any of these commands the LORD gave Moses—

23 any of the LORD’s commands to you through him, from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come—

Cross References

• 1. S Leviticus 23:14
• 2. Ezekiel 44:30; Romans 11:16