Numbers 5:9

5:9 Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

Numbers 18:27

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

Numbers 18:29

18:29 From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the Lord, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’


tn The Hebrew word תְּרוּמָה (tÿrumah) seems to be a general word for any offering that goes to the priests (see J. Milgrom, Studies in Cultic Theology and Terminology [SJLA 36], 159-72).

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.

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

tn The construction is “every raised offering of the Lord”; the genitive here is probably to be taken as a genitive of worth – the offering that is due the Lord.

tn Or “its hallowed thing.”