Numbers 18:31
Good News Translation
You and your families may eat the rest anywhere, because it is your wages for your service in the Tent.

New Revised Standard Version
You may eat it in any place, you and your households; for it is your payment for your service in the tent of meeting.

Contemporary English Version
Your share may be eaten anywhere by anyone in your family, because it is your pay for working at the sacred tent.

New American Bible
You and your households may eat it anywhere, since it is your recompense in exchange for labor in the tent of meeting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your families: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you serve in the tabernacle of the testimony.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your families: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you serve in the tabernacle of the testimony.

in every

Deuteronomy 14:22,23 Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth, . . .

your reward

Matthew 10:10 Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat.

Luke 10:7 And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.

1 Corinthians 9:10-14 Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.

Galatians 6:6 And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.

1 Timothy 5:17,18 Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. . . .

Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
30And thou shalt say to them: If you offer all the goodly and the better things of the tithes, it shall be reckoned to you as if you had given the firstfruits of the barnfloor and the winepress: 31And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your families: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you serve in the tabernacle of the testimony.32And you shall not sin in this point, by reserving the choicest and fat things to yourselves, lest you profane the oblations of the children of Israel, and die.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:13
Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar?

Numbers 18:30
And thou shalt say to them: If you offer all the goodly and the better things of the tithes, it shall be reckoned to you as if you had given the firstfruits of the barnfloor and the winepress:

Numbers 18:32
And you shall not sin in this point, by reserving the choicest and fat things to yourselves, lest you profane the oblations of the children of Israel, and die.

Numbers 18:30
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