Numbers - 5:10



10 Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.'"

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 5:10.

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And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.
And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man giveth the priest shall be his.
and any man's hallowed things become his; that which any man giveth to the priest becometh his.'
And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.
with whatever is offered by each one at the Sanctuary, and which is delivered into the hands of the priest; it shall be his."
Qued quisque sanctificaverit sacerdotis erit, et tradetur in manum ejus.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And every man's hallowed things shall be his - i. e. the priest's. The heave offerings Numbers 5:9 and dedicatory offerings (e. g. first-fruits) were to be the perquisite of the officiating priests.

And every man's hallowed things shall be his,.... Which he, by a vow or freewill offering, separates to holy uses; these are at his own dispose, to give to what priest he will, or they are the priest's; for what a man devotes to the Lord is to be given to them, or such things as God has hallowed, sanctified, and set apart for sacred uses, as the firstfruits and tithes, they were the priests'; the Jewish writers (i) restrain it to tithes:
whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his; his personally, who officiates, or to whom the gift is given, and is not to be divided among the other priests in the course.
(i) Targ. Jonah. Siphri & Midrash in Jarchi in loc.

Every man's hallowed things - Understand this not of the sacrifices, because these were not the priest's peculiar, but part of them was offered to God, and the remainder was eaten by the offerer as well as by the priest; but of such other things as were devoted to God, and could not be offered in sacrifice; as suppose a man consecrated an house to the Lord, this was to be the priest's.

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