Numbers 18:18
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
Numbers 18:18 in other translations
| BSB | And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you. |
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| WEB | Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. |
| ASV | And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine. |
| YLT | and their flesh is thine, as the breast of the wave-offering, and as the right leg, it is thine; |
| DARBY | And their flesh shall be thine; as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder shall it be thine. |
| BBE | Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours. |
| Webster | And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder are thine |
What does Numbers 18:18 mean?
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…
Numbers 18:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 18:18
- Exodus 29:26-28
And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord: and it shall be thy part. And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the Lord.
- Leviticus 7:31-34
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
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Context
- Numbers 18:17
But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord.
- Numbers 18:18
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
- Numbers 18:19
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Numbers 18:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y la carne de ellos será tuya: como el pecho de la mecedura y como la espaldilla derecha, será tuya. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et leur chair sera à toi; elle sera à toi, comme la poitrine tournoyée et comme l’épaule droite. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ihr Fleisch soll dir gehören; wie die Brust des Webopfers und wie der rechte Schenkel soll es dir gehören. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Carnes vero in usum tuum cedent, sicut pectusculum consecratum, et armus dexter: tua erunt. |