Numbers 18:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר יְהוָה֮ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹן֒ וַאֲנִי֙ הִנֵּ֣ה נָתַ֣תִּֽי לְךָ֔ אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת תְּרוּמֹתָ֑י לְכָל־קָדְשֵׁ֣י בְנֵֽי־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל לְךָ֨ נְתַתִּ֧ים לְמָשְׁחָ֛ה וּלְבָנֶ֖יךָ לְחָק־עוֹלָֽם׃

Transliteration

And-wə-yədabbēr YHWH unto-ʾAhărōn and-I hinnēh nātattî to-you ʾet-mišmeret tərûmōtāy for-all-qodšê sons-of-Yiśrāʾēl to-you nətattîm for-mošḥāh and-to-sons-your for-ḥoq-ʿôlām

Grammar Details

• *wə-yədabbēr*: waw consecutive + piel imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he spoke
• *nātattî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have given
• *mišmeret*: feminine singular construct - charge/duty of
• *tərûmōtāy*: feminine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my heave offerings/contributions
• *qodšê*: masculine plural construct - holy things of
• *nətattîm*: qal perfect 1st person singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - I have given them
• *mošḥāh*: feminine singular noun - portion/anointing
• *ḥoq*: masculine singular construct - statute/ordinance of
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - eternity/perpetuity

Word Meanings

• *mišmeret tərûmōtāy*: charge of my offerings/duty of my contributions
• *tərûmōtāy*: heave offerings/contributions/sacred donations
• *qodšê*: holy things/sacred gifts/consecrated items
• *mošḥāh*: portion/anointing/consecrated portion
• *ḥoq-ʿôlām*: perpetual statute/everlasting ordinance

Referenced Verses

• Lev 6:16 : 16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
• Lev 6:18 : 18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
• Exod 29:29 : 29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
• Exod 40:13 : 13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
• Exod 40:15 : 15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
• Lev 7:6 : 6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
• Lev 7:31-35 : 31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. 34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel. 35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;
• Lev 8:30 : 30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
• Lev 10:14-15 : 14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel. 15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
• Lev 21:10 : 10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
• Num 18:9 : 9 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.
• Deut 12:6 : 6 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:
• Deut 12:11 : 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
• Deut 26:13 : 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
• Isa 10:27 : 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
• Heb 1:9 : 9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• 1 John 2:20 : 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
• Exod 29:21 : 21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
• Lev 6:20 : 20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
• Lev 6:26 : 26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.