Numbers 18:31
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New International Version (©2011)
You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You Levites and your families may eat this food anywhere you wish, for it is your compensation for serving in the Tabernacle.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You and your household may eat it anywhere, because it's a reward to you in return for your services at the Tent of Meeting.

NET Bible (©2006)
And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So you and your households may eat it anywhere, because it's the wages you receive for your work at the tent of meeting.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of meeting.

American King James Version
And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

American Standard Version
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your families: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you serve in the tabernacle of the testimony.

Darby Bible Translation
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households; for it is your reward for your service in the tent of meeting.

English Revised Version
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

World English Bible
You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye have eaten it in every place, ye and your households, for it is your hire in exchange for your service in the tent of meeting;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:20-32 As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in ver. 31, the way to have comfort in all our worldly possessions, so as to bear no sin by reason of them. 1. We must be sure that what we have is got honestly and in the service of God. That meat is best eaten which is first earned; but if any will not work, neither shall he eat, 2Th 3:10. 2. We must be sure that God has his dues out of it. We have the comfort of our substance, when we have honoured the Lord with it. Ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved the best from it. We should give alms of such things as we have, that all may be holy and comfortable to us.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And ye shall eat it in every place,.... In any of their tents or dwelling houses, not being obliged to eat it in the tabernacle, where the priests, were obliged to eat many of their holy things, and second tithes were only to be eaten at Jerusalem, Deuteronomy 14:22; but the Levites might eat theirs any where, in any place, clean or unclean, according to Jarchi; for, he says, it might be eaten even in a graveyard; but Aben Ezra much better, in a clean place, be that where it would:

ye, and your households; they and their wives, their sons and daughters, their servants, whether bought or hired; and they might sell it to strangers, to purchase other necessaries with. The Targum of Jonathan interprets this of the priests; but the Levites only are plainly spoken of:

for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation; which is said to encourage them in their work, and animate them to it, as well as to clear their right to such a maintenance against all objections; for the labourer is worthy of his reward, as those that labour in the word and doctrine are of theirs, 1 Timothy 5:17.

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The Heave Offering
…30Therefore you shall say to them, When you have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press. 31And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. 32And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.

1 Corinthians 9:13 Don't you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?
Numbers 18:30 "Say to the Levites: 'When you present the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the product of the threshing floor or the winepress.
Numbers 18:32 By presenting the best part of it you will not be guilty in this matter; then you will not defile the holy offerings of the Israelites, and you will not die.'"