Numbers 15:20

15:20 You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour ¹  as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.

Numbers 18:27

18:27 And your raised offering will be credited ²  to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine ³  from the winepress.

Numbers 18:30

18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, ⁴  ‘When you offer up ⁵  the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

¹ tn Or “the first of your dough.” The phrase is not very clear. N. H. Snaith thinks it means a batch of loaves from the kneading trough – the first batch of the baking (Leviticus and Numbers [NCB], 251).

² tn The verb is חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon; to count; to think”); it is the same verb used for “crediting” Abram with righteousness. Here the tithe of the priests will be counted as if it were a regular tithe.

³ tn Heb “fullness,” meaning the fullness of the harvest, i.e., a full harvest.

³ tn The wording of this verse is confusing; it may be that it is addressed to the priests, telling them how to deal with the offerings of the Levites.

⁴ tn The clause begins with the infinitive construct with its preposition and suffixed subject serving to indicate the temporal clause.