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 18:30

18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, ‘When you offer up 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.


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 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.

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