And your offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fulness of the wine press: When the Levites give their own tithe to the priests, their action will be the equivalent of the actions of the Israelites who give a tithe from their crops to the priests (see verse 12). The Hebrew word for offering is terumah again (see verse 8). Reckoned to you may be rendered “credited to you” (NET Bible) or “count for you” (Revised English Bible). Good News Translation says simply “considered.” As though it were is literally “as/like.” But the rendering as though it were helpfully reminds the reader that Levites did not grow their own grain or make their own wine. Good News Translation makes this clear by rendering as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fulness of the wine press as “as the equivalent of the offering which the farmer makes of new grain and new wine.” The grain of the threshing floor refers to new grain threshed by a farmer. For grain see verse 12; for threshing floor, see 15.20. The fullness of the wine press refers to a full harvest of grapes made into new wine at the wine press. A wine press was cut from bedrock to form a flat surface on which people walked with bare feet on the grapes to squeeze out the juice. The juice flowed into a vat that was located at a lower level and connected by a channel.

Quoted with permission from de Regt, Lénart J. and Wendland, Ernst R. A Handbook on Numbers. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .