Numbers 18 · Verse 31

Numbers 18:31

And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers 18:31, King James Version

Numbers 18:31 in other translations

BSBAnd you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.
WEBYou may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.
ASVAnd ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
YLTand ye have eaten it in every place, ye and your households, for it is your hire in exchange for your service in the tent of meeting;
DARBYAnd ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households; for it is your reward for your service in the tent of meeting.
BBEIt is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.
WebsterAnd ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

What does Numbers 18:31 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 18:20-32

As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in ver. #(31), the way to have…

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Numbers 18:31 in the original Hebrew

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וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֤םva.'a.khal.Temand you will eatH398
אֹתוֹ֙'o.To<obj.> itH853
בְּכָל\־be.kholin anyH3605
מָק֔וֹםma.KomplaceH4725
אַתֶּ֖ם'a.TemyouH859
וּבֵֽיתְכֶ֑םu.veit.Khemand household yourH1004
כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
שָׂכָ֥רsa.Khar[is] wage[s]H7939
הוּא֙hu'itH1931
לָכֶ֔םla.Khemof you
חֵ֥לֶףChe.lefin return forH2500
עֲבֹֽדַתְכֶ֖ם'a.vo.dat.Khemservice yourH5656
בְּאֹ֥הֶלbe.'O.helin [the] tent ofH168
מוֹעֵֽד\׃mo.'EdmeetingH4150

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

Cross references for Numbers 18:31

  • 1 Corinthians 9:10-14

    Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? …

  • Matthew 10:10

    Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

  • 1 Timothy 5:17-18

    Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

  • Luke 10:7

    And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

  • Deuteronomy 14:22-23

    Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

  • Galatians 6:6

    Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:13

    For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

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De 14:22,23
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Context

  • Numbers 18:30

    Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

  • Numbers 18:31

    And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Numbers 18:32

    And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

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Numbers 18:31 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y lo comeréis en cualquier lugar, vosotros y vuestra familia: pues es vuestra remuneración por vuestro ministerio en el tabernáculo del testimonio.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et vous le mangerez en tout lieu, vous et vos maisons; car c’est votre salaire pour votre service à la tente d’assignation.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und ihr möget ihn essen an jedem Orte, ihr und euer Haus; denn das ist euer Lohn für euren Dienst am Zelte der Zusammenkunft.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et comedetis eas in omnibus locis vestris, tam vos quam familiæ vestræ: quia pretium est pro ministerio, quo servitis in tabernaculo testimonii.