KJV King James Version
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
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Numbers 15:21
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.
WEB World English Bible
Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
ASV American Standard Version
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Of the beginning of your dough ye do give to Jehovah a heave-offering—to your generations.
Surrounding context — Numbers 15
18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
19 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for] an heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
23 [Even] all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded [Moses], and henceforward among your generations;
24 Then it shall be, if [ought] be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
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Exodus 29:28And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it [is] an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, [even] their heave offering unto the LORD.Numbers 18:26Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, [even] a tenth [part] of the tithe.
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