John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 15:20

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 separate a separation for the priests,” with which agrees the Misnah f203, though according to that, if made to sell publicly it was the forty eighth part of it. Some, because (<041521>Numbers 15:21) begins and ends with m, “mem”, which numerically signifies “forty”, think this is an instruction to a bountiful person to give the fortieth part f204: as [ye do] the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall ye heave it; as the two wave loaves and firstfruits of their harvest, (<032316>Leviticus 23:16,17).

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