Numbers 18:11-13

11 “This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

12 “I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the LORD as the firstfruits of their harvest.

13 All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the LORD will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

Numbers 18:11-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 18

This chapter gives an account of the distinct work and service of the priests and Levites, Nu 18:1-7; and of several things given to the priests for their maintenance, Nu 18:8-19; and of the tithes the Levites should have to live upon, since they were to have no inheritance in the land of Israel, Nu 18:20-24; and of the tenth out of those tithes they were to give to the high priest, Nu 18:25-32.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 29:26; Leviticus 7:30; Numbers 6:20
• 2. Leviticus 7:31-34
• 3. Leviticus 13:3; Leviticus 22:1-16
• 4. Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 11:14; Deuteronomy 12:17; Deuteronomy 28:51; 2 Kings 18:32; 2 Chronicles 31:5; Nehemiah 10:37; Jeremiah 31:12; Ezekiel 23:41; Hosea 2:8; Joel 1:10; Haggai 1:11
• 5. S Genesis 4:3
• 6. Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26; Nehemiah 10:35
• 7. S Exodus 29:27; Exodus 22:29; Exodus 23:19
• 8. ver 11