18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, 3 ‘When you offer up 4 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 The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.
2 tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”
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.