Numbers 5:9
Good News Translation
Also every special contribution which the Israelites offer to the LORD belongs to the priest to whom they present it.

New Revised Standard Version
Among all the sacred donations of the Israelites, every gift that they bring to the priest shall be his.

New American Bible
Likewise, every contribution among the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the priest will belong to him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:

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All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:

offering.

Numbers 18:8,9,19 And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances. . . .

Exodus 29:28 Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall fall to Aaron's share, and his sons', by a perpetual right from the children of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of their peace victims which they offer to the Lord.

Leviticus 6:17,18,26 And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass. . . .

Leviticus 7:6-14 Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy. . . .

Leviticus 10:13 And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and thy sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been commanded me.

Leviticus 22:2,3 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord. . . .

Deuteronomy 18:3,4 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: . . .

Ezekiel 44:29,30 They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass: and every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs. . . .

Malachi 3:8-10 Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:7-13 Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock? . . .

Context
Restitution for Trespasses
8But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice. 9All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:10And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:13
Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar?

Leviticus 7:32
The right shoulder also of the victim, of peace offerings shall fall to the priest for firstfruits.

Leviticus 7:34
For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is separated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their victims of peace offerings: and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel.

Leviticus 10:14
The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy children, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

Leviticus 10:15
Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee and to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded.

Numbers 5:8
But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's, besides the ram that is offered for expiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.

Numbers 31:41
And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,

Deuteronomy 12:26
But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord, thou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall choose:

Numbers 5:8
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