You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the offerings made by fire to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded.
Parallel translations
- WEB and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: for so I am commanded.
- KJV And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
- NKJV You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due, of the sacrifices made by fire to the Lord; for so I have been commanded.
- NASB You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your allotted portion and your sons’ allotted portion from the Lord’s offerings by fire; for so I have been commanded.
- NLT You must eat it in a sacred place, for it has been given to you and your descendants as your portion of the special gifts presented to the Lord. These are the commands I have been given.
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Quick answer
They must eat it in a holy place as their rightful portion, because God so commanded. God himself ordains the priests' provision from the offerings.
Overview
The priests' food is a divinely granted 'portion,' to be eaten only in the holy place fitting its sacredness. This grounds priestly provision in God's command, not human arrangement. It illustrates God's care for those devoted to his service and prefigures the gospel principle that the Lord provides for those who labor in his work.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Lev 6:16Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
- Lev 2:3The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.
- Num 18:10You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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