Numbers 18:18
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New International Version (©2011)
Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The meat of these animals will be yours, just like the breast and right thigh that are presented by lifting them up as a special offering before the altar.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But their meat belongs to you. It belongs to you like the breast of the presentation offering and the right thigh."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Their meat is to belong to you, just as the breast wave offering and the right thigh is yours.

NET Bible (©2006)
And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But the meat is yours, like the breast and the right thigh that are presented.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.

American King James Version
And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.

American Standard Version
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder shall be thine.

Darby Bible Translation
And their flesh shall be thine; as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder shall it be thine.

English Revised Version
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine

World English Bible
Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.

Young's Literal Translation
and their flesh is thine, as the breast of the wave-offering, and as the right leg, it is thine;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:8-19 All believers are spiritual priests, and God has promised to take care of them. Godliness has the promise of the life that now is. And from the provision here made for the priests, the apostle shows that it is the duty of christian churches to maintain their ministers. Scandalous maintenance makes scandalous ministers. The priests were to be wholly devoted to their ministry, not diverted from it, or disturbed in it, by worldly care or business. Also, that they might be examples of living by faith, not only in God's providence, but in his ordinances. The best should be offered for the first-fruits unto the Lord. Those who think to save, by putting God off with the refuse, deceive themselves, for God is not mocked.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - The flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. This is on the face of it inconsistent with the direction given in Deuteronomy 15:19, 20, that the flesh of the first-lings should be eaten by the offerers in the holy place (cf. also Deuteronomy 12:17, 18). Two explanations have been proposed.

1. That the firstlings were given to the priest in the same sense as the peace offerings, i.e., only as regarded the breast and shoulder, while the rest went to the offerer. This, however, does obvious violence to the language, and is not supported by the Septuagint.

2. That as the priest was bound to consume the firstlings with his family, and could not sell them, he would be certainly disposed to invite the offerer to join him in the sacred meal. This may have been usually the case, but it was entirely within the option of the priest, and could scarcely be made the basis of a direct command, like that of Deuteronomy 15:19, still less of an indirect assumption, like that of Deuteronomy 12:17, 18, that the firstlings stood upon the same footing as free-will offerings and heave offerings. It is easier to suppose that the law was actually modified in this, as in some other particulars.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the flesh of them shall be thine,.... For him and his family to eat of, whether blemished or perfect the Jews say (l):

as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine: which were his part of the peace offerings, for him and his sons to eat of, Leviticus 7:34; and the Jews observe (m), that as the wave breast and heave shoulder of the peace offerings might be eaten in two days and one night, so might those of the firstlings.

(l) Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Becorot, c. 4. sect. 2. & 5. 2.((m) Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Zebachim, c. 5. sect. 8.

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The Priests' Portion
…17But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the LORD. 18And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours. 19All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you.

Leviticus 7:31 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 7:34 From the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their perpetual share from the Israelites.'"
1 Samuel 9:24 So the cook took up the thigh with what was on it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel said, "Here is what has been kept for you. Eat, because it was set aside for you for this occasion from the time I said, 'I have invited guests.'" And Saul dined with Samuel that day.