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Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Contemporary English Version

Numbers 18:18

You are allowed to eat the meat of those animals, just as you can eat the choice ribs and the right hind leg of the special sacrifices.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Offerings;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - First Born, the;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Firstborn;   Priest;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron's Rod;   Firstborn;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Knife;   Law of Moses;   Priest;   Wave Offering;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Breast;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bekorot;   First-Born, Redemption of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be your.
King James Version
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
Lexham English Bible
But their flesh will be for you like the breast section of the wave offering, and it will be for you like the right upper thigh.
New Century Version
But the meat will be yours, just as the breast that is presented and the right thigh will be yours.
New English Translation
And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.
Amplified Bible
"Their meat shall be yours, like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.
New American Standard Bible
"However, their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the flesh of them shalbe thine, as the shake breast, and as the right shoulder shalbe thine.
Legacy Standard Bible
And their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.
Complete Jewish Bible
Their meat will be yours, like the breast that is waved and the right thigh — they will be yours.
Darby Translation
And their flesh shall be thine; as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder shall it be thine.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the meat from these animals will be yours. And also the breast that was lifted up to the Lord will be yours. And the right thigh from other offerings will be yours.
English Standard Version
But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.
George Lamsa Translation
But their meat shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.
Good News Translation
The meat from them belongs to you, like the breast and the right hind leg of the special offering.
Christian Standard Bible®
But their meat belongs to you. It belongs to you like the breast of the presentation offering and the right thigh.
Literal Translation
And their flesh shall be yours, as the breast of the wave offering, and as the right leg; it shall be yours.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their flesh shalbe thine, like as ye Wauebrest and ye right shulder is thine also.
American Standard Version
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.
Bible in Basic English
Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the fleshe of them is thyne, as the waue brest and the right shoulder: these are thyne.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.
King James Version (1611)
And the flesh of them shall bee thine: as the waue breast, and as the right shoulder are thine.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the flesh shall be thine, as also the breast of the wave-offering and as the right shoulder, it shall be thine.
English Revised Version
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.
Berean Standard Bible
And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the fleischis schulen falle in to thin vss, as the brest halewid and the riyt schuldur, schulen 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;
Update Bible Version
And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine
World English Bible
The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be your.
New King James Version
And their flesh shall be yours, just as the wave breast and the right thigh are yours.
New Living Translation
The meat of these animals will be yours, just like the breast and right thigh that are presented by lifting them up as a special offering before the altar.
New Life Bible
But their meat will be yours, like the breast of a wave gift and like the right thigh are yours.
New Revised Standard
but their flesh shall be yours, just as the breast that is elevated and as the right thigh are yours.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and their flesh, shall be thine, - as the wave-breast and as the right leg, thine, shall it be:
Douay-Rheims Bible
But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder shall be thine.
Revised 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 (1995)
"Their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.

Contextual Overview

8The Lord said to Aaron: I have put you in charge of the sacred gifts and sacrifices that the Israelites bring to me. And from now on, you, your sons, and your descendants will receive part of the sacrifices for sin, as well as part of the grain sacrifices, and the sacrifices to make things right. Your share of these sacrifices will be the parts not burned on the altar. 10 Since these things are sacred, they must be eaten near the sacred tent, but only men are allowed to eat them. 11 You will also receive part of the special gifts and offerings that the Israelites bring to me. Any member of your family who is clean and acceptable for worship can eat these things. 12 For example, when the Israelites bring me the first batches of oil, wine, and grain, you can have the best parts of those gifts. 13 And the first part of the crops from their fields and vineyards also belongs to you. The people will offer this to me, then anyone in your family who is clean may have some of it. 14 Everything in Israel that has been completely dedicated to me will now belong to you. 15 The first-born son in every Israelite family, as well as the first-born males of their flocks and herds, belong to me. But a first-born son and every first-born donkey must be bought back from me. 16 The price for a first-born son who is at least one month old will be five pieces of silver, weighed according to the official standards. 17 However, all first-born cattle, sheep, and goats belong to me and cannot be bought back. Splatter their blood on the altar and send their fat up in smoke, so I can smell it and be pleased. 18 You are allowed to eat the meat of those animals, just as you can eat the choice ribs and the right hind leg of the special sacrifices.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 29:26-28, Leviticus 7:31-34

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:22 - right shoulder Exodus 29:27 - the breast Leviticus 7:32 - General Leviticus 7:34 - the wave Numbers 6:20 - with the wave

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. He quickly ran to meet them, bowed with his face to the ground,
Genesis 18:3
and said, "Please come to my home where I can serve you.
Genesis 18:17
The Lord said to himself, "I should tell Abraham what I am going to do,
Genesis 18:18
since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all other nations on earth.
Genesis 18:25
You surely wouldn't let them be killed when you destroy the evil ones. You are the judge of all the earth, and you do what is right."
Genesis 18:26
The Lord replied, "If I find fifty good people in Sodom, I will save the city to keep them from being killed."
Genesis 26:4
I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth,
Psalms 72:17
May the glory of the king shine brightly forever like the sun in the sky. Let him make nations prosper and learn to praise him.
Galatians 3:8
Long ago the Scriptures said that God would accept the Gentiles because of their faith. That's why God told Abraham the good news that all nations would be blessed because of him.
Galatians 3:14
And because of what Jesus Christ has done, the blessing that was promised to Abraham was taken to the Gentiles. This happened so that by faith we would be given the promised Holy Spirit.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the flesh of them shall be thine,.... For him and his family to eat of, whether blemished or perfect the Jews say l:

as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine: which were his part of the peace offerings, for him and his sons to eat of, Leviticus 7:34; and the Jews observe m, that as the wave breast and heave shoulder of the peace offerings might be eaten in two days and one night, so might those of the firstlings.

l Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Becorot, c. 4. sect. 2. & 5. 2. m Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Zebachim, c. 5. sect. 8.


 
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