Numbers 18:13
The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
14Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.
Cross References
Exodus 22:29Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.
Leviticus 22:7And when the sun has gone down he will be clean; and after that he may take part in the holy food, because it is his bread.
Deuteronomy 18:4And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.
2 Kings 4:42Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.
Jeremiah 24:2One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food.
Micah 7:1Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 18:9-20
8 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and… Read the whole commentary →