They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and everything banned from secular use 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.
- KJV They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated 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.
- 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 18:14“Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
- Lev 27:21but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests.
- Lev 27:28“‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.
- Lev 7:6Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
- Lev 6:14–18“‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar.
- Lev 6:29Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.
- Lev 6:26The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- Num 18:9–11This shall be yours of the most holy things 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.
- Lev 2:3That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy thing of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
- 1 Cor 9:13–14Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
- Lev 2:10That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a thing most holy of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
- Heb 13:10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
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