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Numbers 15:20

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

What does Numbers 15:20 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.
Numbers 15:20 — American Standard Version

Context — Numbers 15

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
17And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
18Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
19then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave-offering unto Jehovah.
20Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.
21Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.
22And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses,
23even all that Jehovah hath commanded you by Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for] an heave offering, etc.] Of the first dough made of the first corn that was threshed, winnowed and ground, they were to make a cake, and offer it an heave offering unto the Lord; the quantity of it is not expressed, but was left to the people’s generosity; no stinted measure was fixed by the law; but according to the Scribes, or the traditions of the elders, the quantity of the cake was the twenty fourth part of the first dough that was kneaded; not the forty fourth, as Buxtorf f202 through mistake says; so the Targum of Jonathan, “of the first of your dough, one out of twenty four (i.e. the twenty fourth part of it), ye shall…”
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“heave offering of the threshing-floor--meaning the corn on the threshing-floor; that is, after harvest. so shall ye heave it--to the priests accompanying the ceremony with the same rites.”
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Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“Dough - “Coarse meal” Nehemiah 10:37; Ezekiel 44:30. return to 'Top of Page'”
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley (1703–1791) · Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament and Old Testament notes · 18th-century historical commentary
“The threshing floor - That is, of the corn in the threshing floor, when you have gathered in your corn. Numbers 15:22”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“a cake: Num 18:12; Exo 23:19; Deu 26:2-10; Neh 10:37; Pro 3:9, Pro 3:10; Eze 44:30; Mat 6:33; Rom 11:16; Co1 15:20; Jam 1:18; Rev 14:4 the heave offering: Lev 2:14, Lev 23:20, Lev 23:16, Lev 23:17 Numbers 15:21”
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