Numbers 18:31

Numbers 18:31 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting.

Context of Numbers 18:31

29Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best of it, even the hallowed part from it. 30Therefore thou shalt say to them, When ye have offered the best of it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. 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. 32And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have offered from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

Numbers 18:31 word by word

וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם אֹתוֹ֙ בְּכָל־מָק֔וֹם אַתֶּ֖ם וּבֵֽיתְכֶ֑ם כִּֽי־שָׂכָ֥ר הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם חֵ֥לֶף עֲבֹֽדַתְכֶ֖ם בְּאֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃Read the interlinear

• eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• placeמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725
• householdsבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: householdH1004
• rewardשָׂכָרώâkâr · wagesH7939
• forחֵ֫לֶףchêleph · forH2500
• serviceעֲבֹדָה‛ăbôdâh ‛ăbôdâh · service: ministryH5656
• tabernacleאֹ֫הֶל'ôhel · tentH168
• congregationמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meetingH4150

Cross-references for Numbers 18:31

• Deuteronomy 14:22Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
• Matthew 10:10Nor bag for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor staffs: for the workman is worthy of his food.
• Luke 10:7And 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.
• 1 Corinthians 9:10Or saith he this 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.
• 2 Corinthians 12:13For what is it in which ye were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
• Galatians 6:6Let him that is taught in the word share with him that teacheth in all good things.
• 1 Timothy 5:17Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Commentaries on Numbers 18:31

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-32Verses 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 comfort in all our worldly…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 31Levites and their families could eat any food received as tithes. This food was their payment for working at the Tent of Meeting.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 21-3221-22. I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve--Neither the priests nor the Levites were to possess any allotments of land but to depend entirely upon Him who liberally provided for them out of His own portion; and this law was subservient to many important purposes--such as that, being exempted from the cares and labors of worldly business, they might be exclusively devoted to His…Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 18:31

• Levites
• Offerings
• Priest

In the dictionaries

• Exodus
• Agrapha
• Atonement, Day of
• Chronicles, Books of
• Criticism
• Ezekiel
• Genealogy
• Law in the Old Testament
• Numbers, Book of
• Priests and Levites

Commentaries on Numbers 18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings