18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, 2 ‘When you offer up 3 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 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.
3 tn The clause begins with the infinitive construct with its preposition and suffixed subject serving to indicate the temporal clause.