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New Living Translation

Numbers 18:31

You Levites and your families may eat this food anywhere you wish, for it is your compensation for serving in the Tabernacle.

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
You may eat it anywhere, you and your households; because it is your payment in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
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 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 And the Lord said to Aaron, "You priests will receive no allotment of land or share of property among the people of Israel. I am your share and your allotment. 21 As for the tribe of Levi, your relatives, I will compensate them for their service in the Tabernacle. Instead of an allotment of land, I will give them the tithes from the entire land of Israel. 22 "From now on, no Israelites except priests or Levites may approach the Tabernacle. If they come too near, they will be judged guilty and will die. 23 Only the Levites may serve at the Tabernacle, and they will be held responsible for any offenses against it. This is a permanent law for you, to be observed from generation to generation. The Levites will receive no allotment of land among the Israelites, 24 because I have given them the Israelites' tithes, which have been presented as sacred offerings to the Lord . This will be the Levites' share. That is why I said they would receive no allotment of land among the Israelites." 25 The Lord also told Moses, 26 "Give these instructions to the Levites: When you receive from the people of Israel the tithes I have assigned as your allotment, give a tenth of the tithes you receive—a tithe of the tithe—to the Lord as a sacred offering. 27 The Lord will consider this offering to be your harvest offering, as though it were the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress. 28 You must present one-tenth of the tithe received from the Israelites as a sacred offering to the Lord . This is the Lord 's sacred portion, and you must present it to Aaron the priest. 29 Be sure to give to the Lord the best portions of the gifts given to you.

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
So the Lord told Abraham, "I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant.
Genesis 18:22
The other men turned and headed toward Sodom, but the Lord remained with Abraham.
Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham spoke again. "Since I have begun, let me speak further to my Lord, even though I am but dust and ashes.
Matthew 7:7
"Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:11
So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
Luke 11:8
But I tell you this—though he won't do it for friendship's sake, if you keep knocking long enough, he will get up and give you whatever you need because of your shameless persistence.
Luke 18:1
One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.
Ephesians 6:18
Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.
Hebrews 4:16
So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

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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