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Complete Jewish Bible

Numbers 18:31

You may eat it anywhere, you and your households; because it is your payment in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Offerings;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Food;   Leaders;   Levites;   Priests;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tithes;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Tithes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bag;   Economic Life;   Levites;   Pentateuch;   Tithe;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron's Rod;   Malachi;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Levites;   Tithes;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Tithe;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
You may eat it anywhere, you and your household, because it is a wage in return for your service in the tent of assembly.
New Century Version
You and your families may eat all that is left anywhere, because it is your pay for your work in the Meeting Tent.
New English Translation
And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.
Amplified Bible
'You may eat it anywhere, you and [the members of] your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle).
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye shal eate it in al places, ye, & your housholdes: for it is your wages for your seruice in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
Contemporary English Version
Your share may be eaten anywhere by anyone in your family, because it is your pay for working at the sacred tent.
Darby 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
You and your families can eat all that is left. This is your payment for the work you do in the Meeting Tent.
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.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall eat it in any place, you and your households; for it is your wages for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Good News Translation
You and your families may eat the rest anywhere, because it is your wages for your service in the Tent.
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.
Literal Translation
And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye maye eate it in all places, ye & yor children: for it is youre rewarde for youre seruyce in the Tabernacle of witnesse:
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.
Bible in Basic English
It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ye shall eate it in all places, both ye and your householdes, for it is your rewarde for your seruice in the tabernacle of the congregation.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye may eat it in every place, ye and your households; for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
King James Version (1611)
And ye shall eate it in euery place, ye and your housholds: for it is your reward for your seruice, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall eat it in any place, ye and your families; for this is your reward for your services in the tabernacle of witness.
English Revised 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.
Berean Standard Bible
And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye schulen ete tho tithis in alle youre placis, as wel ye as youre meynees, for it is the prijs for the seruyce, in whiche ye seruen in the tabernacle of witnessyng.
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;
Update Bible Version
And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
New King James Version
You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting.
New Living Translation
You Levites and your families may eat this food anywhere you wish, for it is your compensation for serving in the Tabernacle.
New Life Bible
You and those of your houses may eat it in any place. For it is your pay for your work in the meeting tent.
New Revised Standard
You may eat it in any place, you and your households; for it is your payment for your service in the tent of meeting.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And ye shall eat it in any place, ye, and your household, - for a reward, it is unto you, the allotted portion for your laborious work 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.
Revised 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 (1995)
'You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

Contextual Overview

20 Adonai said to Aharon, "You are not to have any inheritance or portion in their land; I am your portion and inheritance among the people of Isra'el. 21 (vii) "To the descendants of Levi I have given the entire tenth of the produce collected in Isra'el. It is their inheritance in payment for the service they render in the tent of meeting. 22 From now on, the people of Isra'el are not to approach the tent of meeting, so that they will not bear the consequences of their sin and die. 23 Only the L'vi'im are to perform the service in the tent of meeting, and they will be responsible for whatever they do wrong. This is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations. They are to have no inheritance among the people of Isra'el, 24 because I have given to the L'vi'im as their inheritance the tenths of the produce which the people of Isra'el set aside as a gift for Adonai . This is why I have said to them that they are to have no inheritance among the people of Isra'el." 25 Adonai said to Moshe, 26 "Tell the L'vi'im, ‘When you take from the people of Isra'el the tenth of the produce which I have given you from them as your inheritance, you are to set aside from it a gift for Adonai , one tenth of the tenth. 27 The gift you set aside will be accounted to you as if it were grain from the threshing-floor and grape juice from the wine vat. 28 In this way you will set aside a gift for Adonai from all your tenths that you receive from the people of Isra'el, and from these tenths you are to give to Aharon the cohen the gift set aside for Adonai . 29 From everything given to you, you are to set aside all that is due Adonai , the best part of it, its holy portion.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in every: Deuteronomy 14:22, Deuteronomy 14:23

your reward: Matthew 10:10, Luke 10:7, 1 Corinthians 9:10-14, 2 Corinthians 12:13, Galatians 6:6, 1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Timothy 5:18

Cross-References

Genesis 18:20
Adonai said, "The outcry against S'dom and ‘Amora is so great and their sin so serious
Genesis 18:22
The men turned away from there and went toward S'dom, but Avraham remained standing before Adonai .
Genesis 18:27
Avraham answered, "Here now, I, who am but dust and ashes, have taken it upon myself to speak to A donai.
Matthew 7:7
"Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:11
So if you, even though you are bad, know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will your Father in heaven keep giving good things to those who keep asking him!
Luke 11:8
But I tell you, even if he won't get up because the man is his friend, yet because of the man's hutzpah he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
Luke 18:1
Then Yeshua told his talmidim a parable, in order to impress on them that they must always keep praying and not lose heart.
Ephesians 6:18
as you pray at all times, with all kinds of prayers and requests, in the Spirit, vigilantly and persistently, for all God's people.
Hebrews 4:16
Therefore, let us confidently approach the throne from which God gives grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace in our time of need.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall eat it in every place,.... In any of their tents or dwelling houses, not being obliged to eat it in the tabernacle, where the priests, were obliged to eat many of their holy things, and second tithes were only to be eaten at Jerusalem, Deuteronomy 14:22; but the Levites might eat theirs any where, in any place, clean or unclean, according to Jarchi; for, he says, it might be eaten even in a graveyard; but Aben Ezra much better, in a clean place, be that where it would:

ye, and your households; they and their wives, their sons and daughters, their servants, whether bought or hired; and they might sell it to strangers, to purchase other necessaries with. The Targum of Jonathan interprets this of the priests; but the Levites only are plainly spoken of:

for it [is] your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation; which is said to encourage them in their work, and animate them to it, as well as to clear their right to such a maintenance against all objections; for the labourer is worthy of his reward, as those that labour in the word and doctrine are of theirs, 1 Timothy 5:17.


 
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