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The Darby Translation

Numbers 18:10

As most holy shalt thou eat it: every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Offerings;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron's Rod;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Male;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Patriarchs, the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you.
King James Version
In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
Lexham English Bible
You will eat it in the most holy place; every male will eat it. It will be a holy object to you.
New Century Version
You must eat the offering in a most holy place. Any male may eat it, but you must respect it as holy.
New English Translation
You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will 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.
New American Standard Bible
"As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In the most holy place shalt thou eate it: euery male shal eate of it: it is holy vnto thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
Contemporary English Version
Since these things are sacred, they must be eaten near the sacred tent, but only men are allowed to eat them.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are to eat it in an especially holy place; every male may eat it; it will be set apart for you.
Easy-to-Read Version
Eat these things only in a very holy place. Every male in your family may eat them, but you must remember that these offerings are holy.
English Standard Version
In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.
George Lamsa Translation
In the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy to you.
Good News Translation
You must eat these things in a holy place, and only males may eat them; consider them holy.
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.
Literal Translation
You shall eat it in the Holy of Holies; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the most holy place shalt thou eate it. All that are males shall eate therof: For it shal be holy vnto the.
American Standard Version
As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy unto thee.
Bible in Basic English
As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the most holy place shalt thou eate it, and all that are males shall eate of it, let it be holy vnto thee.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In a most holy place shalt thou eat thereof; every male may eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee.
King James Version (1611)
In the most holy place shalt thou eate it, euery male shall eate it: it shall be holy vnto thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In the most holy place shall ye eat them; every male shall eat them, thou and thy sons: they shall be holy to thee.
English Revised Version
As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof: every male shall eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee.
Berean Standard Bible
You are to eat it as most holy. Every male may eat it; it shall be holy to you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt ete it in the seyntuarie; malis oneli schulen ete therof, for it is halewid to the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
in the holy of holies thou dost eat it; every male doth eat it; holy it is to thee.
Update Bible Version
As the most holy things you shall eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: 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
As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you.
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 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.
New Life Bible
You will eat it as the most holy gifts. Every male will eat it. It will be holy to you.
New Revised Standard
As a most holy thing you shall eat it; every male may eat it; it shall be holy to you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As something most holy, shall ye eat it, - every male, shall eat it, holy, shall it be unto thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.
Revised Standard Version
In a most holy place shall you eat of it; every male may eat of it; it is holy to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.

Contextual Overview

8 And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, And I, behold, I have given thee the charge of my heave-offerings, of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to thee have I given them, because of the anointing, and to thy sons by an everlasting statute. 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, of all their oblations, and of all their sin-offerings, and of all their trespass-offerings, which they render unto me, it is most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 As most holy shalt thou eat it: every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee. 11 And this shall be thine: the heave-offering of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by an everlasting statute; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they give to Jehovah, have I given thee. 13 The first ripe of everything that is in their land, which they shall bring to Jehovah, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. 14 Every devoted thing in Israel shall be thine. 15 Everything that breaketh open the womb of all flesh, which they present to Jehovah, of men or of beasts, shall be thine; nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou in any case ransom, and the firstborn of unclean beasts shalt thou ransom. 16 And those that are to be ransomed from a month old shalt thou ransom, according to thy valuation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, thou shalt not ransom: they are holy. Thou shalt sprinkle their blood on the altar, and their fat shalt thou burn as an offering by fire for a sweet odour to Jehovah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

In the: Exodus 29:31, Exodus 29:32, Leviticus 6:16, Leviticus 6:26, Leviticus 6:29, Leviticus 7:6, Leviticus 10:13, Leviticus 10:17, Leviticus 14:13

every male: Leviticus 6:18, Leviticus 6:29, Leviticus 7:6, Leviticus 21:22

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:17 - I have Leviticus 10:12 - Take Ezekiel 42:13 - the most holy

Cross-References

Genesis 16:10
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.
Genesis 17:19
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.
Genesis 18:3
and said, Lord, if now I have found favour in thine eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.
Genesis 18:5
And I will fetch a morsel of bread; and refresh yourselves; after that ye shall pass on; for therefore have ye passed on towards your servant. And they said, So do as thou hast said.
Genesis 18:8
And he took thick and sweet milk, and the calf that he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood before them under the tree, and they ate.
Genesis 18:9
And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
Genesis 18:13
And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why is this, that Sarah laughs, saying, Shall I indeed bear, when I am become old?
Genesis 18:14
Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year, and Sarah shall have a son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it,.... Not in the holy of holies, eminently so called, nor in the holy place, for they were neither of them places to eat in; but in the tent of the congregation, as Aben Ezra, or court, as Jarchi; called most holy, in distinction from and in comparison of the camp of Israel, and their tents, as afterwards of Jerusalem, and their houses there, where they might not eat the most holy things:

every male shall eat it; the sons of priests, and they only, not their wives, nor their daughters, and therefore not to be eaten at home, or in their own houses:

it shall be holy unto thee; separated only for the use of him and his sons.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the most holy place - Rather, “among the most holy things;” as in Numbers 4:4 : i. e. “As the most holy of things shalt thou eat it.” Accordingly, only the males of the priestly families could eat of the things here specified.


 
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