Numbers 18:13

All of the first crops that people harvest and bring to me belong to you. Anyone in your family who has performed the ritual to become acceptable to me is permitted to eat that food.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

In Context

12“ am also giving to you the first food that people harvest each year and bring to me—the best olive oil and new wine and grain.

14“Everything in Israel that is set apart to belong to me also belongs to you.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:29◄Do not withhold from/Give► me the best parts of the grain that you harvest and of the olive oil and the wine that you produce.

Leviticus 22:7After the sun sets, he will be permitted to eat some of the sacred offerings that are for him to eat.

Deuteronomy 18:4You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you harvest, and the first part of the wine that you make, and the first part of the olive oil that you make, and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.

2 Kings 4:42One day a man from Baal-Shalishah town brought to Elisha a sack of freshly cut grain and 20 loaves of barley bread, made from the first grain that they harvested that year. Elisha said to his servant, “Give it to the group of prophets, so that they can eat it.”

Jeremiah 24:2One basket was full of good figs, like the kind that ripen first. The other basket was filled with figs that were bad/rotten, with the result that they could not be eaten.

Micah 7:1I am very miserable/frustrated! I am like [SIM] someone who is hungry, who searches for fruit to pick after all the fruit had been picked and who finds no grapes or figs to eat.

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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