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Literal Standard Version

Numbers 18:10

you eat it among the most holy things; every male eats it; it is holy to you.

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

8And YHWH speaks to Aaron: "And I, behold, have given to you the charge of My raised-offerings, of all the hallowed things of the sons of Israel—I have given them to you and to your sons for the anointing, by a continuous statute. 9This is yours from the most holy things, from the fire: all their offering, of all their present, and of all their sin-offering, and of all their guilt-offering, which they give back to Me, is most holy to you and to your sons; 10you eat it among the most holy things; every male eats it; it is holy to you.11And this [is] yours: the raised-offering of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons, and to your daughters with you, by a continuous statute; every clean one in your house eats it; 12all the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat—their first-[fruits] which they give to YHWH—I have given them to you. 13The first-fruits of all that [is] in their land, which they bring to YHWH, are yours; every clean one in your house eats it; 14every devoted thing in Israel is yours; 15everyone opening a womb of all flesh which they bring near to YHWH, among man and among beast, is yours; only, you certainly ransom the firstborn of man, and you ransom the firstling of the unclean beast. 16And their ransomed ones from a son of a month, you ransom with your valuation [for] five shekels of silver, by the shekel of the holy place; it [is] twenty gerahs. 17Only, the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you do not ransom, they [are] holy: you sprinkle their blood on the altar, and you make incense of their fat [as] a fire-offering of refreshing fragrance to YHWH;

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 Messenger of YHWH says to her, "Multiplying I multiply your seed, and it is not numbered from multitude";
Genesis 17:16
and I have blessed her, and have also given to you a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she has become nations—kings of peoples are from her."
Genesis 17:19
and God says, "Your wife Sarah is certainly bearing a son to you, and you have called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a perpetual covenant, to his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah does bear to you at this appointed time in the next year";
Genesis 18:3
and he says, "My Lord, if now I have found grace in Your eyes, please do not pass on from Your servant;
Genesis 18:5
and I bring a piece of bread, and support Your heart; afterward pass on, for therefore You have passed over to Your servant"; and they say, "So may you do as you have spoken."
Genesis 18:8
and he takes butter and milk, and the son of the herd which he has prepared, and sets before them; and he is standing by them under the tree, and they eat.
Genesis 18:9
And they say to him, "Where [is] Sarah your wife?" And he says, "Behold—in the tent";
Genesis 18:13
And YHWH says to Abraham, "Why [is] this? Sarah has laughed, saying, Is it really true—I bear—and I am aged?
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too wonderful for YHWH? At the appointed time I return to you, about the time of life, and Sarah has 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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