Teks -- Numbers 18:30-32 (NET)

18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, ‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress. 18:31 And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting. 18:32 And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Num 18:31 - Every place

In every clean place, and not in the holy place only.

Wesley: Num 18:32 - Neither shall ye pollute the holy things

As you will do, if you abuse their holy offerings, by reserving that entirely to yourselves, which they offer to God to be disposed as he hath appointed, namely, part to you, and part to the priests.

JFB: Num 18:32 - ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, &c.

Neglect in having the best entailed sin in the use of such unhallowed food. And the holy things would be polluted by the reservation to themselves of what should be offered to God and the priests.

TSK: Num 18:30 - the best // then it shall

the best : Num 18:28; Gen 43:11; Deu 6:5; Pro 3:9, Pro 3:10; Mal 1:8; Mat 6:33, Mat 10:37-39; Phi 3:8, Phi 3:9

then it shall : Num 18:27

TSK: Num 18:31 - in every // your reward

in every : Deu 14:22, Deu 14:23

your reward : Mat 10:10; Luk 10:7; 1Co 9:10-14; 2Co 12:13; Gal 6:6; 1Ti 5:17, 1Ti 5:18

TSK: Num 18:32 - bear // pollute

bear : Num 18:22; Lev 19:8

pollute : Lev 22:2, Lev 22:15; Mal 1:7; 1Co 11:27, 1Co 11:29

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Num 18:31 - In every place

In every place i.e. in every clean place, and not in the holy place only.

Poole: Num 18:32 - The best of it // Neither shall ye pollute the holy things

The best of it implying, that if they neglected this duty, they sinned in the use of such unhallowed food.

Neither shall ye pollute the holy things as you will do, if you abuse their holy offerings, by reserving that entirely to yourselves which they offer to God to be disposed as he hath appointed, to wit, part to you, and part to the priests.

Haydock: Num 18:32 - By

By, &c. Hebrew, "when you have made a heave-offering of the best of it; nor shall you profane the holy things of," &c. (Haydock) ---

This they would do, if they gave the worst only to the priests. (Du Hamel) ---

There were only three at this time; yet they received the 100th part of the produce of so many thousands. Well therefore might God say, I will fill the souls of the priests with fatness: and my people shall be filled with good things, Jeremias xxxi. 14. (Tirinus)

Gill: Num 18:30 - Therefore thou shalt say unto them // when ye have heaved the best thereof from it // then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press

Therefore thou shalt say unto them,.... The Targum of Jonathan is,"thou shalt say to them the priests;''but the words seem manifestly spoken to the Levites:

when ye have heaved the best thereof from it; taken out the tenth part of it, and that the best:

then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press; then what remains shall be reckoned as much their own, and may be as lawfully enjoyed, as the corn of the threshing floor, and the wine of the wine fat, of any Israelite whatever.

Gill: Num 18:31 - And ye shall eat it in every place // ye, and your households // for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation

And ye shall eat it in every place,.... In any of their tents or dwelling houses, not being obliged to eat it in the tabernacle, where the priests, were obliged to eat many of their holy things, and second tithes were only to be eaten at Jerusalem, Deu 14:22; but the Levites might eat theirs any where, in any place, clean or unclean, according to Jarchi; for, he says, it might be eaten even in a graveyard; but Aben Ezra much better, in a clean place, be that where it would:

ye, and your households; they and their wives, their sons and daughters, their servants, whether bought or hired; and they might sell it to strangers, to purchase other necessaries with. The Targum of Jonathan interprets this of the priests; but the Levites only are plainly spoken of:

for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation; which is said to encourage them in their work, and animate them to it, as well as to clear their right to such a maintenance against all objections; for the labourer is worthy of his reward, as those that labour in the word and doctrine are of theirs, 1Ti 5:17.

Gill: Num 18:32 - And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it // when ye have heaved from it the best of it // neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel // lest ye die

And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it,.... Shall have no blame laid upon them, or guilt imputed to them, or punishment inflicted on them, on account of their having and enjoying their tithes and gifts:

when ye have heaved from it the best of it; took out the tenth, and that the best, and given it to the priests; or otherwise they would be blameworthy, guilty, and liable to punishment:

neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel; the gifts they have given for holy uses, and so are holy; which would be the case if they ate of them, or enjoyed them, without giving the priests the tenth part of them:

lest ye die; for it seems such a neglect was punishable with death.