Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
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Gill's Exposition
All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat,.... Or the "fat" (i) of them; the fat of anything being the best, see Deu 32:14,
the firstfruits of them: the oil, and wine,…
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Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the best lit. -the fat" (as marg.). Cf. Deu 32:14; Psa 81:16. This vague expression is explained by the more technical term the firstfruits, or the first (Heb. rêshîth); cf. Deu 18:4. The amount which…
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