Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 15:19
Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave offering unto the LORD.
19. an heave-offering ] a contribution. See on Num 15:9.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
When ye eat, i.e. when you are about to eat it; for before they did eat it, they were to offer this offering to God.
Of the bread, i.e. the bread-corn, as that word is used. Job 28:5; Psa 104:15; Isa 28:22.
Unto the Lord, i.e. to the priest of the Lord, as appears from Eze 44:30.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
19. when ye eat of the bread of theland, ye shall offer up an heave offeringThe offeringprescribed was to precede the act of eating.
unto the Lordthat is,the priests of the Lord (Eze44:30).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Then it shall be, that when ye eat of the bread of the land,…. Of the land of Canaan; when they were about to eat of it, before they actually did; when they were preparing for it, had ground their corn into flour, and had mixed it with water and kneaded it into dough, in order to bake it and make it fit for food; by bread is meant bread corn, such as was the old corn of the land the Israelites first ate of when they entered into it, Jos 5:11; the Targum of Jonathan adds,
“not of rice, or millet, or pulse,”
but what was made of corn used for bread; and the Jews say n, there were five things only they were obliged to make the cake of, wheat, barley, “cusmin” or rye, fox ear (barley), and oats; and this is to be understood only of dough made for men’s bread, and not for dogs or any other beast o:
ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the Lord; and what that is, is expressed in Nu 15:20.
n Misn. Challah, c. 1. sect. 1. o Schulchan Aruch, ut supra, (par. 2.) c. 330. sect. 8, 9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
19. Heave offering Heb, t’roomah, a gift taken from a whole, which one brings to God. It may consist of meat, sin, trespass, or thank offerings; of the firstborn; tithes; prisoners taken in war, (Num 31:28-29😉 gold and silver; or, as here, of firstfruits. It is rendered offering twenty-five times, heave offering twenty-four times, oblation eighteen times, heave shoulder thrice, and gift once. See Lev 7:14, note.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Num 15:19. When ye eat Houbigant has it, when ye shall first eat. The meaning is, that before they began to eat their new bread they should make their offering to the Lord.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
The oblation before prescribed seems to have been a general acknowledgment from the people at large; but this was an oblation from every one that reaped a harvest: who was required, previously to tasting it himself, to offer a portion of dough as a heave-offering to the Lord. This is supposed to have been given to the priests in their several cities, and not carried to the tabernacle. Jos 5:11, Jos 5:12
Reciprocal: Exo 29:28 – is an heave Lev 7:14 – an heave Lev 23:17 – the firstfruits Num 18:12 – the firstfruits Num 18:19 – the heave Neh 10:37 – the firstfruits Eze 44:30 – all the firstfruits
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Num 15:19-20. When ye eat When you are about to eat it; for before they eat it, they were to offer this offering to God. The bread of the land That is, the bread-corn. The threshing-floor That is, of the corn in the threshing-floor, when you have gathered in your corn.