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Literal Standard Version

Numbers 18:18

and their flesh is yours, as the breast of the wave-offering and as the right leg are yours.

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.
Contemporary English Version
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.
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

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

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
and he lifts up his eyes and looks, and behold, three men standing by him, and he sees, and runs to meet them from the opening of the tent, and bows himself toward the earth,
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 18:17
and YHWH said, "Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing,
Genesis 18:18
and Abraham certainly becomes a great and mighty nation, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from You to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it has been—as the righteous so the wicked—far be it from You; does the Judge of all the earth not do justice?"
Genesis 18:26
And YHWH says, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake."
Genesis 26:4
and I have multiplied your seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to your seed all these lands; and all nations of the earth have blessed themselves in your Seed;
Psalms 72:17
His Name is for all time, || Before the sun is His Name continued, || And they bless themselves in Him, || All nations pronounce Him blessed.
Galatians 3:8
and the Writing, having foreseen that God declares righteous the nations by faith, foretold the good news to Abraham:
Galatians 3:14
that the blessing of Abraham may come to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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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