They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Parallel translations
- WEB They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
- BSB They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.
- NKJV They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
- NASB They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and everything banned from secular use in Israel shall be theirs.
- NLT Their food will come from the gifts and sacrifices brought to the Temple by the people—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Whatever anyone sets apart for the Lord will belong to the priests.
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Quick answer
The priests are to be sustained by the offerings of the people, including grain, sin, and trespass offerings.
Overview
Because they have no land, the priests are provided for through the sacrifices and devoted things of Israel. God ensures that those who serve at the altar are supported by the altar. Paul applies this principle to gospel ministry, teaching that those who proclaim the gospel should live by it (1 Corinthians 9:13-14).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Num 18:14Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
- Lev 27:21But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
- Lev 27:28Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
- Lev 7:6Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
- Lev 6:14–18And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
- Lev 6:29All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
- Lev 6:26The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Num 18:9–11This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat 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.
- Lev 2:3And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
- 1 Cor 9:13–14Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
- Lev 2:10And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
- Heb 13:10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
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