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28 Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the Lord of all your tithes that you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the Lord’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest. 29 From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due[a] the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’[b]

30 “Therefore you will say to them,[c] ‘When you offer up[d] the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:29 tn The construction is “every raised offering of the Lord”; the genitive here is probably to be taken as a genitive of worth—the offering that is due the Lord.
  2. Numbers 18:29 tn Or “its hallowed thing.”
  3. Numbers 18:30 tn The wording of this verse is confusing; it may be that it is addressed to the priests, telling them how to deal with the offerings of the Levites.
  4. Numbers 18:30 tn The clause begins with the infinitive construct with its preposition and suffixed subject serving to indicate the temporal clause.