Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it. You must regard it as holy. New Living Translation You must eat it as a most holy offering. All the males may eat of it, and you must treat it as most holy. English Standard Version In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you. Berean Standard Bible You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy. King James Bible In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. New King James Version In a most holy place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. New American Standard Bible As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. NASB 1995 “As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. NASB 1977 “As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. Legacy Standard Bible As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. Amplified Bible You shall eat it as the most holy thing; every male [of your family] shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. Christian Standard Bible You are to eat it as a most holy offering. Every male may eat it; it is to be holy to you. Holman Christian Standard Bible You are to eat it as a most holy offering. Every male may eat it; it is to be holy to you.” American Standard Version As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy unto thee. Contemporary English Version Since these things are sacred, they must be eaten near the sacred tent, but only men are allowed to eat them. English Revised Version As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof: every male shall eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee. GOD'S WORD® Translation Eat it in a most holy place. Any male may eat it. You must consider it holy. Good News Translation You must eat these things in a holy place, and only males may eat them; consider them holy. International Standard Version You may eat them as consecrated gifts. Every male may eat them. They're sacred for you. Majority Standard Bible You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy. NET Bible You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you. New Heart English Bible You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you. Webster's Bible Translation In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to thee. World English Bible You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionyou eat it among the most holy things; every male eats it; it is holy to you. Young's Literal Translation in the holy of holies thou dost eat it; every male doth eat it; holy it is to thee. Smith's Literal Translation In the holy of holies ye shall eat it; every male shall eat it: holy shall it be to thee. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall eat it in the Sanctuary. Only the males shall eat from it, because it has been consecrated for you. New American Bible You shall eat them in a most holy place; every male may partake of them. As holy, they belong to you. New Revised Standard Version As a most holy thing you shall eat it; every male may eat it; it shall be holy to you. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIn the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy to you. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated In the Holy of Holies you shall eat it; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy to you. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917In a most holy place shalt thou eat thereof; every male may eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee. Brenton Septuagint Translation In the most holy place shall ye eat them; every male shall eat them, thou and thy sons: they shall be holy to thee. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Offerings for Priests and Levites…9A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons. 10You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy. 11And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.… Cross References Leviticus 6:16-18 Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. / It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. / Any male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the food offerings to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that touches them will become holy.” Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. Deuteronomy 12:5-7 Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go. / To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks. / There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you. Deuteronomy 14:23 And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. 1 Samuel 2:28 And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the food offerings of the Israelites. Ezekiel 44:29 They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them. Leviticus 10:12-13 And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy. / You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the food offerings to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded. Leviticus 22:10-13 No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it. / But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food. / If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions. ... 1 Corinthians 9:13 Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings? Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat. Leviticus 2:3 The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD. Leviticus 2:10 But the remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD. Leviticus 24:9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD—his portion forever.” Nehemiah 10:37-39 Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor. / A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God. / For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.” Matthew 12:4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests. Treasury of Scripture In the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to you. in the Exodus 29:31,32 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place… Leviticus 6:16,26,29 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it… Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy. every male Leviticus 6:18,29 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy… Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy. Leviticus 21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Jump to Previous Holies Holy Male Regard Something ThereofJump to Next Holies Holy Male Regard Something ThereofNumbers 18 1. The charge of the priests and Levites8. The priests, portion 21. The Levites, 25. The heave offering to the priests out of the Levites' portion You are to eat it This phrase indicates a direct command from God to the priests regarding the consumption of certain offerings. The Hebrew root for "eat" is "אָכַל" (akal), which implies not just physical consumption but also participation in the sacredness of the offering. In the ancient Near Eastern context, eating was often associated with fellowship and covenantal relationships. Here, it signifies the priests' intimate participation in the holiness of the offerings, reinforcing their role as mediators between God and Israel. as a most holy offering Every male may eat it it shall be holy to you 1. That it means the court of the tabernacle, called "the holy place" in Leviticus 6:16, 26; Leviticus 7:6, and there specified as the only place in which the meat offerings, the sin offerings, and trespass offerings might be eaten. There is no reason why this court should not be called "must holy," as well as "holy;" if it was "holy" with respect to the camp, or the holy city, it was "most holy" with respect to all without the camp, or without the gate. 2. That the expression does not mean "in the most holy place," but "amongst the most holy things," as it does in Numbers 4:4, and above in verse 9. A distinction is clearly intended between the "most holy things," which only the priests and their sons might eat, and the "holy things," of which the rest of their families might partake also. It is difficult to decide between these renderings, although there can be no doubt that the "most holy" things were actually to be consumed within the tabernacle precincts. Hebrew You are to eatתֹּאכֲלֶ֑נּוּ (tō·ḵă·len·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat it as most holy. בְּקֹ֥דֶשׁ (bə·qō·ḏeš) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity Every כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every male זָכָר֙ (zā·ḵār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2145: Remembered, a male may eat it; יֹאכַ֣ל (yō·ḵal) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat it shall be יִֽהְיֶה־ (yih·yeh-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be holy קֹ֖דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity to you. לָּֽךְ׃ (lāḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew Links Numbers 18:10 NIVNumbers 18:10 NLT Numbers 18:10 ESV Numbers 18:10 NASB Numbers 18:10 KJV Numbers 18:10 BibleApps.com Numbers 18:10 Biblia Paralela Numbers 18:10 Chinese Bible Numbers 18:10 French Bible Numbers 18:10 Catholic Bible OT Law: Numbers 18:10 You shall eat of it like (Nu Num.) |