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What does Numbers 18:29 mean?
"Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’"
— Numbers 18:29 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.
Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’
“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’”
Explanation
Numbers 18:29 comes in the middle of God's instructions about how the Levites are to handle the tithes they receive from the rest of Israel. The verse says that when the Levites present their offering to the Lord from the tithes given to them, they must give the best part — the choicest portion — not simply whatever is left over or convenient. The "holy part" language emphasizes that this offering is to be treated with the same seriousness and quality as any other sacred gift given to God.
To understand this fully, you need the surrounding context in Numbers 18. Moses received these instructions from Yahweh to give to Aaron and the Levites. The Levites were set apart to serve at the tabernacle and had no tribal land inheritance like the other tribes of Israel. Instead, God provided for them through the tithes brought by the
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