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A Commentary
Chapter any Share as the other Tribes : See Veut. x. g.
XL1V. JoJJj. xiii. 14. excepting the Portion allotted to
t/VNJ them in the beginning of the following Chapter.
Ver. 29. Ver. 29. They Jhall eat the Meat-offering, and the
Sin-offering, and the Trefpafr-Offering.'] They fhall
have their Share of it^after God'sPart hath been confumed
upon the Altar : See Levit. vi. 18, 29. vii. 6.
Ibid. And every dedicate Thing fhall be theirs.']
Whatsoever Men dedicate to God, the Ufe of it
fhall accrue to the Priefts : If it be a living Creature,
it fhall be killed, and the Prieft fhall have
the Benefit of it : If it be a Piece of Land, it fhall
belong to the Priefts: See Levit. xxvii. 27, 28.
Num. xviii. 14.
Ver. 30. Ver. 30. And the firft of all Firfl-fruit s of all
things, and every Oblation of every [ort of your Ob-
• lations Jhall be the Priefts.~\ The Words tranflated
Tirft-fruits and Oblations, are in the Hebrew Bkcurim
and Trumah. The former imports the Firftripe,
or beft of the Fruits, while they were growing
in the Field. Comp. Exod. xxiii. 19. with Nu?n.
xviii. 12. The latter denotes an Oblation out of
the Product of the Ground, after it was made fit for
Ufe : As out of the Corn after it was threfhed
and laid in Heaps in the Floor or Granary : And fo
of Oyl and Wine, after they were prefled and fitted
for fpending. Thefe Oblations are by fome
Authors, particularly by Mr. Selden in his Trea-
tife of Tithes, Chap. 2. efteemed to amount to the
fixtieth Part of the whole produce. Schindler rates
the Biccurim at the loweft Proportion to be the
fixtieth Part, and computes the Trumah at the fiftieth.
Dr Cumber fuppofes the Biccurim to amount
to an hundreth Part, and the Trumah at a Medium
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