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Numbers 18:10

As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Offerings;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron's Rod;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Male;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Patriarchs, the;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you.
King James Version
In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
Lexham English Bible
You will eat it in the most holy place; every male will eat it. It will be a holy object to you.
New Century Version
You must eat the offering in a most holy place. Any male may eat it, but you must respect it as holy.
New English Translation
You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.
Amplified Bible
"You shall eat it as the most holy thing; every male [of your family] shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
New American Standard Bible
"As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In the most holy place shalt thou eate it: euery male shal eate of it: it is holy vnto thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
Contemporary English Version
Since these things are sacred, they must be eaten near the sacred tent, but only men are allowed to eat them.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are to eat it in an especially holy place; every male may eat it; it will be set apart for you.
Darby Translation
As most holy shalt thou eat it: every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
Eat these things only in a very holy place. Every male in your family may eat them, but you must remember that these offerings are holy.
English Standard Version
In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.
George Lamsa Translation
In the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy to you.
Good News Translation
You must eat these things in a holy place, and only males may eat them; consider them holy.
Christian Standard Bible®
You are to eat it as a most holy offering. Every male may eat it; it is to be holy to you.
Literal Translation
You shall eat it in the Holy of Holies; every male shall eat it; it shall be holy to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the most holy place shalt thou eate it. All that are males shall eate therof: For it shal be holy vnto the.
American Standard Version
As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy unto thee.
Bible in Basic English
As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the most holy place shalt thou eate it, and all that are males shall eate of it, let it be holy vnto thee.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In a most holy place shalt thou eat thereof; every male may eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee.
King James Version (1611)
In the most holy place shalt thou eate it, euery male shall eate it: it shall be holy vnto thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In the most holy place shall ye eat them; every male shall eat them, thou and thy sons: they shall be holy to thee.
English Revised Version
As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof: every male shall eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee.
Berean Standard Bible
You are to eat it as most holy. Every male may eat it; it shall be holy to you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt ete it in the seyntuarie; malis oneli schulen ete therof, for it is halewid to the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
in the holy of holies thou dost eat it; every male doth eat it; holy it is to thee.
Update Bible Version
As the most holy things you shall eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to thee.
New King James Version
In a most holy place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
New Living Translation
You must eat it as a most holy offering. All the males may eat of it, and you must treat it as most holy.
New Life Bible
You will eat it as the most holy gifts. Every male will eat it. It will be holy to you.
New Revised Standard
As a most holy thing you shall eat it; every male may eat it; it shall be holy to you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As something most holy, shall ye eat it, - every male, shall eat it, holy, shall it be unto thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.
Revised Standard Version
In a most holy place shall you eat of it; every male may eat of it; it is holy to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.

Contextual Overview

8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. 9 This shall be your of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. 10 As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall eat of it: it shall be holy to you. 11 This is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them. 13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be your; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it. 14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be your. 15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be your: nevertheless the firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals shall you redeem. 16 Those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs). 17 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to Yahweh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

In the: Exodus 29:31, Exodus 29:32, Leviticus 6:16, Leviticus 6:26, Leviticus 6:29, Leviticus 7:6, Leviticus 10:13, Leviticus 10:17, Leviticus 14:13

every male: Leviticus 6:18, Leviticus 6:29, Leviticus 7:6, Leviticus 21:22

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:17 - I have Leviticus 10:12 - Take Ezekiel 42:13 - the most holy

Cross-References

Genesis 16:10
The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."
Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."
Genesis 18:3
and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
Genesis 18:5
I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
Genesis 18:8
He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
Genesis 18:9
They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? He said, "See, in the tent."
Genesis 18:13
Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it,.... Not in the holy of holies, eminently so called, nor in the holy place, for they were neither of them places to eat in; but in the tent of the congregation, as Aben Ezra, or court, as Jarchi; called most holy, in distinction from and in comparison of the camp of Israel, and their tents, as afterwards of Jerusalem, and their houses there, where they might not eat the most holy things:

every male shall eat it; the sons of priests, and they only, not their wives, nor their daughters, and therefore not to be eaten at home, or in their own houses:

it shall be holy unto thee; separated only for the use of him and his sons.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the most holy place - Rather, “among the most holy things;” as in Numbers 4:4 : i. e. “As the most holy of things shalt thou eat it.” Accordingly, only the males of the priestly families could eat of the things here specified.


 
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