Numbers 18 · Verse 10

Numbers 18:10

In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
Numbers 18:10, King James Version

Numbers 18:10 in other translations

BSBYou are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy.
WEBYou shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
ASVAs the most holy things shalt thou eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: it shall be holy unto thee.
YLTin the holy of holies thou dost eat it; every male doth eat it; holy it is to thee.
DARBYAs most holy shalt thou eat it: every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee.
BBEAs most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.
WebsterIn the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to thee.

What does Numbers 18:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 18:8-13

Nu 18:8-20. The Priests' Portion. 8-13. the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of my heave offerings--A recapitulation is made in this passage of certain perquisites specially appropriated to the maintenance of the priests. They were parts of the votive and freewill offerings, including both meat and bread, wine and oil, and the first-fruits, which formed a large and valuable item.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 18:8-19

All believers are spiritual priests, and God has promised to take care of them. Godliness has the promise of the life that now is. And from the provision here made for the priests, the apostle shows that it is the duty of christian churches to maintain their ministers. Scandalous maintenance makes scandalous ministers. The priests were to be wholly devoted to their ministry, not diverted from it, or disturbed in it…

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Numbers 18:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּקֹ֥דֶשׁbe.Ko.desh<in> [the] holy thing ofH6944
הַקֳּדָשִׁ֖יםha.ko.da.Shimthe holy thingsH6944
תֹּאכֲלֶ֑נּוּto.kha.Le.nuyou will eat itH398
כָּל\־kol-everyH3605
זָכָר֙za.KharmaleH2145
יֹאכַ֣לyo.Khalhe will eatH398
אֹת֔וֹ'o.To<obj.> itH853
קֹ֖דֶשׁKo.desha holy thingH6944
יִֽהְיֶה\־yih.yeh-it will beH1961
לָּֽךְ\׃Lakhfor <the> you

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 18:10

  • Leviticus 6:29

    All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.

  • Leviticus 7:6

    Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

  • Leviticus 6:16

    And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.

  • Leviticus 10:17

    Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?

  • Leviticus 14:13

    And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:

  • Leviticus 21:22

    He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

  • Leviticus 10:13

    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.

  • Exodus 29:31-32

    And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Leviticus 6:18

    All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

  • Leviticus 6:26

    The 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.

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Context

  • Numbers 18:9

    This 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.

  • Numbers 18:10

    In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

  • Numbers 18:11

    And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with 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, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

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Numbers 18:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		En el santuario la comerás; todo varón comerá de ella: cosa santa será para ti.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tu les mangeras comme des choses très saintes, tout mâle en mangera: ce sera pour toi une chose sainte.
German
Elberfelder 1871		An hochheiligem Orte sollst du es essen, alles Männliche soll es essen; es soll dir heilig sein.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		In sanctuario comedes illud: mares tantum edent ex eo, quia consecratum est tibi.