Numbers 18:18 Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cross References

Leviticus 7:31
And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Leviticus 7:34
For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.

1 Samuel 9:24
And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before you, and eat: for to this time has it been kept for you since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine—provided it was adapted for food or consumable by use; for the gold and silver vessels that were dedicated as the spoils of victory were not given to the priests, but for the use and adornment of the sacred edifice.