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Numbers 18:31

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.

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 Living Translation
You Levites and your families may eat this food anywhere you wish, for it is your compensation for serving in the Tabernacle.
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.
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 shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel. 21 And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant: 22 That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin, 23 But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall not possess any other thing, 24 But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities. 25 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 26 Command the Levites, and declare unto them: When you shall receive of the children of Israel the tithes, which I have given you, offer the firstfruits of them to the Lord, that is to say, the tenth part of the tenth: 27 That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of firstfruits, as well of the barnfloors as of the winepresses: 28 And of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the firstfruits to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest. 29 All the things that you shall offer of the tithes, and shall separate for the gifts of the Lord, shall be the best and choicest things.

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
And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
Genesis 18:22
And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.
Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Matthew 7:11
If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?
Luke 11:8
Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke 18:1
And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,
Ephesians 6:18
By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:
Hebrews 4:16
Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid.

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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