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What does Numbers 15:18 mean?
"“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,"
— Numbers 15:18 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.
One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land where I bring you,
then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.
Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
Explanation
Numbers 15:18 is the opening line of a divine instruction that continues through the next few verses (15:18–21), where God tells Moses to relay to the Israelites a law about offering a portion of their dough once they settle in the land of Canaan. Taken alone, the verse simply establishes the setting for the
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