Numbers 18:13
All the first of the crops, which the soil produces and which are carried to the Lord, shall fall to your use. Whoever is clean in your house shall eat them.
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In The King James Version
In Context
14All that the sons of Israel shall repay by vow shall be yours.
Cross References
Exodus 22:29You shall not delay in paying your tithes and your first-fruits. You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
Leviticus 22:7and the sun has set, then, having been purified, he shall eat from what has been sanctified, because it is his food.
Deuteronomy 18:4the first-fruits of grain, wine, and oil, and a portion of the wool from the shearing of the sheep.
2 Kings 4:42Now a certain man arrived from Baal-Shalishah, carrying, for the man of God, bread from the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new grain in his satchel. But he said, “Give it to the people, so that they may eat.”
Jeremiah 24:2One basket had exceedingly good figs, like the figs usually found early in the season, and the other basket had exceedingly bad figs, which could not be eaten because they were so bad.
Micah 7:1Woe to me, for I have become just like one who gleans the clusters of the vintage in autumn. There is no cluster of grapes to consume; my soul desired figs out of season.
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 →