Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
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Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
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And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
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And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.
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Passages linked to Numbers 18:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 29:26-28 “You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be your portion. You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons. It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 7:31-34 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’ ”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 18:18 And the flesh of them shall be…
Num 18:18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
Ver. 18. And the flesh of them shall be thine.] And besides these here touched, they had other revenues of no small value, as their cities, suburbs, lands, {Num 35:1-34} that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord. {2Ch 31:9}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The flesh; all the flesh of them, and not…
The flesh; all the flesh of them, and not only some parts, as in other sacrifices.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain All the heave offerings of the holy things,.... All…
All the heave offerings of the holy things,.... All before mentioned, and whatsoever comes under that name:
which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord; either by his commandment, or of their own freewill:
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have I given thee, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: so providing for their maintenance by an irrepealable law as long as their priesthood lasted, even until the Messiah should come:
it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee, and thy seed with thee: an incorruptible, inviolable, durable covenant, which should last for ever, even until the Gospel dispensation or world to come should take place; and it would remain ever before the Lord in his sight, who would take care it should never be made void, but stand fast with Aaron and his posterity as long as his priesthood endured.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The flesh - All the flesh of them, and…
The flesh - All the flesh of them, and not only some parts, as in other sacrifices.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Thine. So that thy wife and children, if clean,…
Thine. So that thy wife and children, if clean, may eat the flesh. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. the flesh of them shall be thine] Aaron…
18. the flesh of them shall be thine] Aaron is to receive the whole of their flesh, as he had received the breast and thigh of the peace-offering.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) And the flesh of them shall be thine…
(18) And the flesh of them shall be thine . . . —In Deu_12:17-18, the firstlings of the herd and of the flock are directed to be eaten by the owners in the place which the Lord should choose. Either the law as prescribed in Numbers was subsequently modified, or the second clause of this verse explains and qualifies the preceding clause, and assigns only the wave breast and the right shoulder (or, rather, leg) to the priests. (Comp. Lev_10:14-15.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The flesh of them shall be thine, as the…
The flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. This is on the face of it inconsistent with the direction given in Deu_15:19, Deu_15:20, that the flesh of the firstlings should be eaten by the offerers in the holy place. (cf. also Deu_12:17, Deu_12:18) Two explanations have been proposed.
1. That the firstlings were given to the priest in the same sense as the peace offerings, i.e., only as regarded the breast and shoulder, while the rest went to the offerer. This, however, does obvious violence to the language, and is not supported by the Septuagint.
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2. That as the priest was bound to consume the firstlings with his family, and could not sell them, he would be certainly disposed to invite the offerer to join him in the sacred meal. This may have been usually the case, but it was entirely within the option of the priest, and could scarcely be made the basis of a direct command, like that of Deu_15:19, still less of an indirect assumption, like that of Deu_12:17, Deu_12:18, that the firstlings stood upon the same footing as free-will offerings and heave offerings. It is easier to suppose that the law was actually modified in this, as in some other particulars.
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