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Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

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God Honors the Gift

Commentators explain that God considered the Levites' tithe (which came from the people's tithes) to be just as valid as if it were grain from their own threshing floor. Even though the Levites didn't own land, their offering from their God-given income was fully honored and accepted by Him.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Numbers 18:27

18th Century

Theologian

Reckoned unto you - Or, by you. The Levites were, of their tithes, to pay tithe to the priests, just as other Israelites paid tithe to the…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Numbers 18:27

19th Century

Bishop

And as the fulness of the wine-press.— The word which is here rendered fulness is the same which occurs in Exodus 22:9, a…

John Gill

John Gill

On Numbers 18:27

17th Century

Pastor

And [this] your heave offering
The tithe of the tithe, which though not properly heaved or lifted up, as the heave o…

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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Numbers 18:20–32

17th Century

Minister

As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their In…