Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
The first dough of the new grain gathered in during the fifty days after Passover was to be given to the Lord as a heave offering in every generation, brought at the feast of Pentecost with two wave loaves of fine flour baked with leaven as first-fruits to the Lord. An acceptable offering is the first portion of dough given to the Lord as a heave offering in every generation. The first and best of what was received was to be set apart for God before meeting personal needs, as a voluntary, freewill thank offering acknowledging God as the source of increase, distinct from the tithe.
It is part of God's command that Israel return its increase to Him, alongside tithes and other first offerings, showing that the Hebrews gave extensively to God, so that Christians should therefore give at least one-tenth. It belongs to the law that Israel appear before the Lord three times in the year and not appear empty, giving of the first and the best they have. With that law stood the promise that God would cast out nations before them, enlarge their borders, let no man desire their land while they went up, and prosper them, a blessing still given to those who faithfully prove Him today.
It belongs to a law that applied equally to the congregation and to the stranger living among them, so that the stranger shared the community's religious obligations and standing before the Lord. It belongs not to the Decalogue, the eternal constitution of God's government summarized in love to God and love to neighbor, but to subsidiary sanitary or police regulations adapted to Israel for that time and surroundings in the wilderness. It stands in a chapter that shows Sabbath-breaking to be a sin abhorrent to God, illustrated by the special dealing with flagrant presumptuous sin in the stoning of the man who defiantly gathered sticks on the Sabbath. The chapter's instruction is evidence that God's requirements can be obeyed, supporting the possibility of observing a definite Sabbath as Israel did during its forty years in the wilderness. The command to set apart a portion of dough from household bread as a heave offering was carried out by the Jewish mother in daily bread-making while the little child clinging to her skirts watched, and together with the Sabbath meal, the kindling of the Sabbath lamp, and the parchment with the name of the Most High fastened to the doorpost, it molded children in the national discipline and made the home the beginning of Jewish education.
The first dough of the new grain gathered in during the fifty days after Passover was to be given to the Lord as a heave offering in every generation, brought at the feast of Pentecost with two wave loaves of fine flour baked with leaven as first-fruits to the Lord. An acceptable offering is the first portion of dough given to the Lord as a heave offering in every generation. The first and best of what was received was to be set apart for God before meeting personal needs, as a voluntary, freewill thank offering acknowledging God as the source of increase, distinct from the tithe.
It is part of God's command that Israel return its increase to Him, alongside tithes and other first offerings, showing that the Hebrews gave extensively to God, so that Christians should therefore give at least one-tenth. It belongs to the law that Israel appear before the Lord three times in the year and not appear empty, giving of the first and the best they have. With that law stood the promise that God would cast out nations before them, enlarge their borders, let no man desire their land while they went up, and prosper them, a blessing still given to those who faithfully prove Him today.
It belongs to a law that applied equally to the congregation and to the stranger living among them, so that the stranger shared the community's religious obligations and standing before the Lord. It belongs not to the Decalogue, the eternal constitution of God's government summarized in love to God and love to neighbor, but to subsidiary sanitary or police regulations adapted to Israel for that time and surroundings in the wilderness. It stands in a chapter that shows Sabbath-breaking to be a sin abhorrent to God, illustrated by the special dealing with flagrant presumptuous sin in the stoning of the man who defiantly gathered sticks on the Sabbath. The chapter's instruction is evidence that God's requirements can be obeyed, supporting the possibility of observing a definite Sabbath as Israel did during its forty years in the wilderness. The command to set apart a portion of dough from household bread as a heave offering was carried out by the Jewish mother in daily bread-making while the little child clinging to her skirts watched, and together with the Sabbath meal, the kindling of the Sabbath lamp, and the parchment with the name of the Most High fastened to the doorpost, it molded children in the national discipline and made the home the beginning of Jewish education.