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Revised Standard Version

Numbers 18:18

but their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh 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.
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 Then the LORD said to Aaron, "And behold, I have given you whatever is kept of the offerings made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel; I have given them to you as a portion, and to your sons as a perpetual due. 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire; every offering of theirs, every cereal offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons. 10 In a most holy place shall you eat of it; every male may eat of it; it is holy to you. 11 This also is yours, the offering of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due; every one who is clean in your house may eat of it. 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the first fruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you. 13 The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours; every one who is clean in your house may eat of it. 14 Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours. 15 Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours; nevertheless the first-born of man you shall redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem. 16 And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor 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
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 18:3
and said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.
Genesis 18:17
The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
Genesis 18:18
seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him?
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Genesis 18:26
And the LORD said, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:
Psalms 72:17
May his name endure for ever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May men bless themselves by him, all nations call him blessed!
Galatians 3:8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Galatians 3:14
that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, that we might 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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