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Douay-Rheims Bible

Numbers 18:18

But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder shall be thine.

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:
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

8 And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances. 9 These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons. 10 Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee. 11 But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them. 12 All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee. 13 All the firstripe of the fruits, that the ground bringeth forth, and which are brought to the Lord, shall be for thy use: he that is clean in thy house, shall eat them. 14 Every thing that the children of Israel shall give by vow, shall be thine. 15 Whatsoever is firstborn of all flesh, which they offer to the Lord, whether it be of men, or of beasts, shall belong to thee: only for the firstborn of man thou shalt take a price, and every beast that is unclean thou shalt cause to be redeemed, 16 And the redemption of it shall be after one month, for five sicles of silver, by the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols. 17 But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord. Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord.

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 when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.
Genesis 18:3
And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant.
Genesis 18:17
And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:
Genesis 18:18
Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.
Genesis 18:26
And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.
Genesis 26:4
And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
Psalms 72:17
(71-17) Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.
Galatians 3:8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Galatians 3:14
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus: that we may receive the promise of the Spirit by 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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