Positive Commandment #273 of 613
Set aside a portion of dough for a priest
Commandment #273 — a positive obligation from Numbers 15:20, classified under Terumah and Tithes in the 613 commandments of the Torah.
Scripture
“'Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.”
— Numbers 15:20
Hebrew
כ רֵאשִׁית, עֲרִסֹתֵכֶם--חַלָּה, תָּרִימוּ תְרוּמָה: כִּתְרוּמַת גֹּרֶן, כֵּן תָּרִימוּ אֹתָהּ.
Greek (Septuagint)
20 ἀπαρχὴν φυράματος ὑμῶν ἄρτον ἀφαίρεμα ἀφοριεῖτε αὐτό· ὡς ἀφαίρεμα ἀπὸ ἅλω, οὕτως ἀφελεῖτε αὐτόν,
Classification
- Type
- Positive (Thou Shalt)
- Category
- Terumah and Tithes
- Book
- numbers
- Chapter
- 15
Scholarly References
- Parashah
- Shelach
- Sefer HaChinuch
- #385
- Mishneh Torah
- SeedsFirst Fruits and Other Priestly Gifts Outside the Temple
Related Commandments in “Terumah and Tithes”
#252: Set aside a gift of food for the priest
Deuteronomy 18:4
#253: The Levite must set aside a tenth of his tithe for the priest
Numbers 18:26
#254: Do not preface one tithe to the next, but separate them in their proper order
Exodus 22:29
#255: A non- priest must not eat food set aside as a gift for the priest
Leviticus 22:10
#256: A hired worker or an Israelite bondsman of a priest must not eat food set aside as a gift for the priest
Leviticus 22:10
#257: An uncircumcised priest must not eat food set aside for a priest
Exodus 12:48
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