We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
Parallel translations
- KJV We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
- BSB We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
- ESV We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
- NKJV We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
- NASB We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
- NLT We have an altar from which the priests in the Tabernacle have no right to eat.
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Cross-references · 6
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
- 1 Cor 10:20But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
- 1 Cor 9:13Don’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?
- 1 Cor 10:17–18Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
- Num 7:5“Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”
- Num 3:7–8They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
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