Numbers 15:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Numbers 15:20 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“the beginning of your dough a cake ye heave up--a heave-offering; as the heave-offering of a threshing-floor, so ye do heave it.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 15:20 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:19Bring 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 34:26Bring 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.”
- Leviticus 2:12You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.
- Leviticus 2:14If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
- Leviticus 23:10“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
- Leviticus 23:14You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
- Leviticus 23:17Bring 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 23:20The 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 18:12I 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.
- Deuteronomy 14:22You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
- Deuteronomy 26:2you 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 10:37Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
- Proverbs 3:9Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- Ezekiel 44:30The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.
- Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Romans 11:16If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
- James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
- Revelation 14:4These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).