Numbers 18:12

“I have given to you all the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Adonai.

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In The King James Version

All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.

In Context

11“This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel [God prevails]. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a chok ·portion· forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

13The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Adonai, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:19+ 23:19. Ex 23:19 (Ex 34:26) (#8.489): To bring the best of the first fruits of your land into the house of Adonai your God The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Adonai your God. + 23:19. Ex 23:19 (#3.193): T. This command is not found in the straightforward text (see Ex 34:26 OU195) / R. Not to seethe ·soak or saturate in liquid· a kid in its mother’s calav ·milk, fat· / R. Not to eat meat and milk cooked together Note: The Wycliffe Bible Commentary (1977 p.73) says from “the Ugarit literature discovered in 1930, it was learned that boiling a kid in its mother’s milk was a Canaanite [Descendant of Humbled] practice used in connection with fertility rites” / Note: Some scholars disagree about the interpretation of the Ugarit text, saying the translation is incorrect R. Note: In 1195, Rambam, also called Maimonides suggested, “As for the prohibition against eating meat ·boiled· in milk, it is in my opinion not improbable that – in addition to this being undoubtedly very gross food and very filling – idolatry had something to do with it. Perhaps such food was eaten at one of the ceremonies of their cult or one of their festivals” The Guide to the Perplexed (111:48) “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk fat. (6)

Leviticus 2:12As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Adonai: but they shall not rise up for a pleasant aroma on the altar.

Leviticus 23:17+ 23:17. Lev 23:17 (Lev 23:16-18, 23:15-20, 23:21; Num 28:26-31) (#4.302): To bring two loaves of bread together with the sacrifices that are offered because of the loaves on the Festival of Shavu'ot ·Weeks· / Pentacost ·50· You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of one tenth of an ephah [two omers; 4.6 q; 4.4 L] of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Adonai.

Numbers 15:19then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Adonai.

Deuteronomy 26:2that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Adonai your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Adonai your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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 →

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