29 You must present as the Lord's portion the best and holiest part of everything given to you.'
29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best
29 Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the Lord; from each its best part is to be dedicated.'
29 Make sure that God's portion is the best and holiest of everything you get.
29 Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to the Lord, from all the best of them, the consecrated part of them.'
29 Be sure to give to the Lord the best portions of the gifts given to you.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 18:29
Commentary on Numbers 18:20-32
(Read Numbers 18:20-32)
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 Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in 2 Thessalonians 3:10. 2. We must be sure that God has his dues out of it. We have the comfort of our substance, when we have honoured the Lord with it. Ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved the best from it. We should give alms of such things as we have, that all may be holy and comfortable to us.