Numbers 15:20
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Numbers 15:20 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Numbers 15:20 is a verse from the book of Numbers in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingf..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Numbers 15:20 — KJV
“Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.”
— Numbers 15:20 (KJV)
Numbers 15:20 in Context — About the Book of Numbers
Numbers follows Israel through forty years of wilderness — a journey that should have taken eleven days. It is an honest record of grumbling, unbelief, and consequence, but also of God's patient provision: manna, water, guidance by cloud and fire, and the famous priestly blessing.
Cross-References for Numbers 15:20
“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. queen...: or, frame, or, workmanship of heaven”
Shares key themes with Numbers 15:20: offer, cake, dough
“And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:”
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“Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:”
Shares key themes with Numbers 15:20: offer, first, heave
“And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.”
Shares key themes with Numbers 15:20: offer, first, dough
“And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? men: or, husbands?”
Shares key themes with Numbers 15:20: offer, cake, heave
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