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Numbers 18:9

in Numbers 18

A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.

KJV

This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.

This verse in Numbers 18

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Most holy - Such as were to be eaten only by the priests, and that in the sanctuary. Reserved - That is, such sacrifices or parts of sacrifices as were not burnt in the fire. Render unto me - By way of compensation for a trespass committed against me, in which case a ram was to be offered, which was a most holy thing, and may be particularly designed here.

This site's exposition

I have put you in charge of My offerings

on Numbers 18:8-14

The portions follow two rules. In verses 9 and 10 every male may eat the most holy offerings. Every ceremonially clean person in the priest's household, daughters included, may eat the gifts and firstfruits of verses 11 to 13.

This site's exposition

reserved from the fire

The priest's share is what the altar fire leaves. Leviticus 6:16-18, 6:26 and 7:6 had already assigned the grain, sin and guilt offerings to him this way. John Wesley reads the guilt offering here as the ram paid as compensation for a trespass against God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), which was to be eaten by the priests themselves, and in the court of the tabernacle only; but other perquisites were less holy, of which their families might eat, at their own houses, provided they were clean,

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This shall be thine of the most holy things,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of my heave offerings--A recapitulation is made in this passage of certain perquisites specially appropriated to the maintenance of the priests.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

“This teaches us that the most holy offerings may only be eaten in the Sanctuary Court, and only by male priests.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Numbers 18:10:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • זֶֽה־this

    zeh-H2088 →1180 times

  • יִהְיֶ֥הit will belong

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • לְךָ֛to <the> you

    lekha

  • מִקֹּ֥דֶשׁfrom [the] holy thing of

    mikodeshH6944 →469 times

  • הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖יםthe holy things

    hakodashimH6944 →469 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הָאֵ֑שׁthe fire

    haeshH784 →378 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • קָ֠רְבָּנָםoffering their

    karebanomH7133 →82 times

  • לְֽכָל־to every

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • מִנְחָתָ֞םgrain offering their

    minchatamH4503 →211 times

  • וּלְכָל־and to every

    ulekhol-H3605 →5413 times

  • חַטָּאתָ֗םsin offering their

    chatatamH2403 →295 times

  • וּלְכָל־and to every

    ulekhol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשָׁמָם֙guilt offering their

    ʾashamamH817 →46 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יָשִׁ֣יבוּthey will give back

    yashivuH7725 →1056 times

  • לִ֔יto <the> me

    li

  • קֹ֣דֶשׁ[will be] a holy thing of

    kodeshH6944 →469 times

  • קָֽדָשִׁ֥יםholy things

    kadashimH6944 →469 times

  • לְךָ֛for <the> you

    lekha

  • ה֖וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וּלְבָנֶֽיךָ׃and for sons your

    ulevaneikhaH1121 →4930 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 4:27

    And if one of the common people sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the LORD’s commandments, he incurs guilt.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 4:2

      “Tell the Israelites to do as follows with one who sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s commandments and does what is forbidden by them:

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 15:27

      Also, if one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.

  • Through

    Leviticus 4:22

    When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the commandments of the LORD his God, he incurs guilt.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 4:13

      Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Leviticus 7:7

    The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 6:25–26

      “Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is…

    • Leviticus 14:13

      Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most…

  • Through

    Leviticus 14:13

    Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 4:24

      He is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.

    • Exodus 29:11

      And you shall slaughter the bull before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

    • Leviticus 1:11

      He shall slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests are to sprinkle its blood against the altar on all sides.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.