Numbers 18:30

Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.

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In The King James Version

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

In Context

29From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.

31It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.

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Cross References

Numbers 18:27And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.

Proverbs 3:9Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

Matthew 6:33But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

Philippians 3:8Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

Matthew Henry on Numbers 18:21-32

The Priests and Levites Provided For. ( b. c. 1490.) 20 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. 21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the… Read the whole commentary →

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