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Numbers 18:12
I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Moses and Aaron to establish the permanent statutory provisions for the priestly household.
The words — The verse emphasizes חֵלֶב (chelev), meaning "the best of," and יִצְהָר (yitzhar), meaning "fresh oil," to specify the premium agricultural yields.
The thread — This allocation mirrors the firstfruits of grain, new wine, and oil commanded in Deuteronomy 18:4 and the best firstfruits brought to the house of the LORD in Exodus 23:19 and Exodus 34:26.
Why it lands — The text mandates that the priestly family receives the designated premium agricultural yields as a permanent statutory provision.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.
Cross-references
- Exodus 23:19 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Deuteronomy 18:4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
- Exodus 34:26 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
- Exodus 22:29 You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
- Leviticus 2:14 If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
- Leviticus 23:17 Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
- Leviticus 23:20 The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
- Numbers 15:19 and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 26:2 you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
- Nehemiah 10:35 We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.