Numbers 18:10
What does Numbers 18:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 18:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy unto thee.
KJV
King James Version · 1611In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901As the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy unto thee.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862in the holy of holies thou dost eat it; every male doth eat it; holy it is to thee.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890As most holy shalt thou eat it: every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee.
Context
v.9This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
v.10This passage
v.11And this is thine: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a portion for ever; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat thereof.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 6:18
Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as his portion for ever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: whosoever toucheth them shall be holy.
- Leviticus 10:13
and ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy portion, and thy sons’ portion, of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: for so I am commanded.
- Leviticus 6:26
The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
- Leviticus 14:13
and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary: for as the sin-offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass-offering: it is most holy.
- Leviticus 10:17
Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Jehovah?
- Leviticus 21:22
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:
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