Numbers 18:12
Good News Translation
"I am giving you all the best of the first produce which the Israelites give me each year: olive oil, wine, and grain.

New Revised Standard Version
All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the choice produce that they give to the LORD, I have given to you.

Contemporary English Version
For example, when the Israelites bring me the first batches of oil, wine, and grain, you can have the best parts of those gifts.

New American Bible
I also assign to you all the best of the new oil and of the new wine and grain that they give to the LORD as their first produce that has been processed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

best of the oil

Numbers 18:29 All the things that you shall offer of the tithes, and shall separate for the gifts of the Lord, shall be the best and choicest things.

The first fruits

Numbers 15:19-21 And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord, . . .

Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.

Exodus 23:19 Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

Exodus 34:26 The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

Leviticus 2:14 But if thou offer a gift of the firstfruits of thy corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and break it small like meal; and so shalt thou offer thy firstfruits to the Lord:

Leviticus 23:17,20 Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the firstfruits, of two tenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of the Lord. . . .

Deuteronomy 18:4 The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.

Deuteronomy 26:2 Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put them in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may be invocated there:

Nehemiah 10:35-37 And that we would bring the firstfruits of our land, and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, from year to year, in the house of our Lord. . . .

Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
11But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them. 12All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.13All the firstripe of the fruits, that the ground bringeth forth, and which are brought to the Lord, shall be for thy use: he that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.…
Cross References
Genesis 27:28
God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.

Deuteronomy 18:3
This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:

Deuteronomy 18:4
The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.

Deuteronomy 32:14
Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

Psalm 81:16
And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

Psalm 147:14
Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

Ezekiel 44:30
And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations of all things that are offered, shall be the priest's: and you shall give the firstfruits of your meats to the priest, that he may return a blessing upon thy house.

Numbers 18:11
Top of Page
Top of Page