Numbers 18:31 You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.

English Standard Version
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
'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
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
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
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.

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.

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;

Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Numbers 18:30
Therefore 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.

Numbers 18:32
And 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.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

26. the Levites … offer … a tenth of the tithe—Out of their own they were to pay tithes to the priests equally as the people gave to them. The best of their tithes was to be assigned to the priests, and afterwards they enjoyed the same liberty to make use of the remainder that other Israelites had of the produce of their threshing-floors and wine-presses.