Numbers - 15:19



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

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 15:19.

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Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord,
then it hath been, in your eating of the bread of the land, ye heave up a heave-offering to Jehovah;
Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.
then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall set apart a portion for a gift unto the LORD.
and when you will eat from the bread of that region, you shall separate the first-fruits to the Lord
Tum fiet, quum incipietis comedere de pane terrae, offeretis in oblationem Jehovae.

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Then it shall be, that when ye eat of the bread of the land,.... Of the land of Canaan; when they were about to eat of it, before they actually did; when they were preparing for it, had ground their corn into flour, and had mixed it with water and kneaded it into dough, in order to bake it and make it fit for food; by bread is meant bread corn, such as was the old corn of the land the Israelites first ate of when they entered into it, Joshua 5:11; the Targum of Jonathan adds,"not of rice, or millet, or pulse,''but what was made of corn used for bread; and the Jews say (n), there were five things only they were obliged to make the cake of, wheat, barley, "cusmin" or rye, fox ear (barley), and oats; and this is to be understood only of dough made for men's bread, and not for dogs or any other beast (o):
ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the Lord; and what that is, is expressed in Numbers 15:20.
(n) Misn. Challah, c. 1. sect. 1. (o) Schulchan Aruch, ut supra, (par. 2.) c. 330. sect. 8, 9.

when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering--The offering prescribed was to precede the act of eating.
unto the Lord--that is, the priests of the Lord (Ezekiel 44:30).

When ye eat - When you are about to eat it: for before they eat it, they were to offer this offering to God. The bread - That is, the bread - corn.

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