Numbers 18:31
New International Version
You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.

New Living Translation
You Levites and your families may eat this food anywhere you wish, for it is your compensation for serving in the Tabernacle.

English Standard Version
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.

Berean Standard Bible
And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.

King James Bible
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 King James Version
You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting.

New American Standard Bible
You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

NASB 1995
‘You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

NASB 1977
‘And you may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

Amplified Bible
You may eat it anywhere, you and [the members of] your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle).

Christian Standard Bible
then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting.

American Standard Version
And 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And eat it in every place where you and the men of your house are, because this is your reward in exchange for your work in the Time Tabernacle.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall eat it in any place, ye and your families; for this is your reward for your services in the tabernacle of witness.

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.

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.

English Revised Version
And 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So you and your households may eat it anywhere, because it's the wages you receive for your work at the tent of meeting.

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

International Standard Version
You and your household may eat it anywhere, because it's a reward to you in return for your services at the Tent of Meeting.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And ye may eat it in every place, ye and your households; for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

Literal Standard Version
and you have eaten it in every place, you and your households, for it [is] your hire in exchange for your service in the Tent of Meeting;

Majority Standard Bible
And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.

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.

NET Bible
And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

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.

New Heart English Bible
You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

Young's Literal Translation
and 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;

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Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
30Therefore say to the Levites, ‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress. 31And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting. 32Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’ ”…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?

Numbers 18:30
Therefore say to the Levites, 'When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.

Numbers 18:32
Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.'"


Treasury of Scripture

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

in every

Deuteronomy 14:22,23
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year…

your reward

Matthew 10:10
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

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.

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…

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(31) And ye shall eat it in every place.--When the tenth which was due to the priests had been duly paid, the remainder of the tithe received from the people became the rightful portion of the Levites, as their ordinary means of subsistence, and might be eaten by them in every place, not being subject to the restrictions laid upon the priests in regard to the place in which the holy things were to be eaten. (See 5:10.)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And you
אַתֶּ֖ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

and your households
וּבֵֽיתְכֶ֑ם (ū·ḇê·ṯə·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1004: A house

may eat [the rest of it] anywhere;
וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם (wa·’ă·ḵal·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

it
הוּא֙ (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is the compensation
שָׂכָ֥ר (śā·ḵār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7939: Payment of contract, salary, fare, maintenance, compensation, benefit

for
חֵ֥לֶף (ḥê·lep̄)
Preposition
Strong's 2500: Exchange, instead of

your work
עֲבֹֽדַתְכֶ֖ם (‘ă·ḇō·ḏaṯ·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5656: Work of any kind

at the Tent
בְּאֹ֥הֶל (bə·’ō·hel)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 168: A tent

of Meeting.
מוֹעֵֽד׃ (mō·w·‘êḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4150: Appointed time, place, or meeting


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