Numbers 15:21

15:21 You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.

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.’

Numbers 20:11

20:11 Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.

Numbers 31:29

31:29 You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.

Numbers 31:41

31:41 So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.


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.”