Numbers 18:27

Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — God instructs Moses to tell the Levites how to handle the tithe they receive from Israelites as their inheritance.

The words — The text uses נֶחְשַׁב (nech.Shav, "it will be reckoned") and תְּרוּמַתְכֶם (te.ru.mat./Khem, "your contribution") to declare that the Levites' offering will be accounted to them as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

The thread — This accounting principle reappears in Numbers 18:30, where the best part of the tithe is likewise reckoned as full produce, and parallels the agricultural offering standard in Numbers 15:20.

Why it lands — The verse requires the Levites to treat their priestly portion with the same tangible, measurable value as standard harvest yields.

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The Hebrew words

וְנֶחְשַׁ֥בve./nech.Shavand/ it will be reckonedלָכֶ֖םla./Khemto <the>/ youתְּרוּמַתְכֶ֑םte.ru.mat./Khemcontribution/ your כַּדָּגָן֙ka./da.Ganlike the/ grain מִן־min-from הַגֹּ֔רֶןha./Go.renthe/ threshing floor וְכַֽמְלֵאָ֖הve./kha/m.le.'Ahand/ like the/ full produce מִן־min-from הַיָּֽקֶב׃hai./Ya.kevthe/ wine-press

King James Version

And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

Cross-references

Numbers 18:30 Therefore say to the Levites, ‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.
Leviticus 6:19 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 15:20 From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
Deuteronomy 15:14 You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.
2 Kings 6:27 He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
Hosea 9:1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.