This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
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Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons. You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
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This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.
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This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
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This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every guilt-offering of theirs, which they may render unto Me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
In a most holy place shalt thou eat thereof; every male may eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee.
Cross-references (21)
- Leviticus 7:7 (v9) “ ‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
- Leviticus 14:13 (vv9–10) He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the…
- Leviticus 6:25-26 (v9) “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin…
- Leviticus 6:29 (v10) Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy.
- Leviticus 7:6 (v10) Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
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- Leviticus 4:22 (v9) “ ‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
- Leviticus 4:27 (v9) “ ‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
- Leviticus 5:1 (v9) “ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report…
- Leviticus 6:16 (v10) That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of…
- Leviticus 10:17 (vv9–10) “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the…
- Exodus 29:31-32 (v10) “You shall take the ram of consecration and boil its meat in a holy place. Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread…
- Leviticus 2:1-3 (v9) “ ‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put…
- Leviticus 5:6 (v9) and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin…
- Leviticus 6:18 (v10) Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh…
- Leviticus 6:26 (v10) The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 7:1 (v9) “ ‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most holy.
- Leviticus 10:12-13 (v9) Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of…
- Leviticus 10:13 (v10) and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; for so I…
- Leviticus 21:22 (v10) He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv9–10 That which was not burned should be the Priest’s.
That which was not burned should be the Priest’s.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Num 18:9 This shall be thine of the most…
Num 18:9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, [shall be] most holy for thee and for thy sons.
Ver. 9. Which they shall render unto me.] As a recompense for some trespass against me. {Num 5:8 Lev 6:6}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv9–10 The most holy things; such as were to be…
The most holy things; such as were to be eaten only by the priests, and that in the sanctuary. How these differ from the holy things, see on Lev 6:17.
Reserved from the fire, i.e. such sacrifices or such parts of sacrifices as were not burnt in the fire.
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Every oblation; which may be understood either,
1. Of the wave-loaves, Lev 23:17, and the shew-bread, which were most holy things, Lev 23:20; 24:9, and which did belong to the priest; nor was there any other such oblation besides what is here particularly expressed; for the peace-offerings were not most holy, and the burnt-offerings were not the priest’s. Or,
2. Of oblations in general; and so the following particulars are mentioned by way of explication and restriction of that general word, to show what oblations are here meant, and to exclude peace-offerings and burnt-offerings.
Which they shalt render unto me, by way of compensation for a trespass committed against me, in which case a ram was to be offered, Lev 6:2,6, which was a most holy thing, and may be particularly designed here.
Shall be most holy; thou shalt esteem it a most holy thing, and shalt use it accordingly, in manner following. Or, these are most holy, and therefore shall be
for thee, and for thy sons, to wit, exclusively, none else may eat them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv9–10 This shall be thine of the most holy things,....…
This shall be thine of the most holy things,.... For, as observed, there were some lighter and lesser holy things or sacrifices, and others superlatively so: and those are begun with, such as were
reserved from the fire; those parts of sacrifices which were not burnt with fire on the altar of burnt offerings:
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every oblation of theirs; which is a general word, including various offerings, the particulars follow:
every meat offering of theirs: or bread offering, for they were made of fine flour and oil, and burnt on the altar, the remainder of which was eaten by Aaron and his sons, Lev 6:14,
every sin offering of theirs; which was offered to make atonement for sin, which also belonged to the priests and their sons, excepting such whose blood was carried into the most holy place, Lev 6:25,
and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me; which was offered for a trespass committed; what remained of this also, when burnt on the altar, was eaten by the priest and his sons, Lev 7:5; and this sacrifice was a ram, when a trespass was committed, either in the holy things of the Lord, or in wrongs done to men, Lev 5:15; Jarchi interprets it of an offering for a trespass committed by rapine or violence to a stranger: these, all of them, it is added:
shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons; for their use, and for theirs only.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Most holy - Such as were to be eaten…
Most holy - Such as were to be eaten only by the priests, and that in the sanctuary. Reserved - That is, such sacrifices or parts of sacrifices as were not burnt in the fire. Render unto me - By way of compensation for a trespass committed against me, in which case a ram was to be offered, which was a most holy thing, and may be particularly designed here.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v10 Num 18:10. In the most holy place shalt thou…
Num 18:10. In the most holy place shalt thou eat it — In the court of the priests, where there were places for this use, which is called the most holy place, not simply and absolutely, but in respect of the thing he speaks of, because this was the most holy of all the places appointed for eating holy things, whereof some might be eaten in any clean place in the camp, or in their own houses.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v10 In the most holy place - Rather, “among the…
In the most holy place - Rather, “among the most holy things;” as in Num 4:4 : i. e. “As the most holy of things shalt thou eat it.” Accordingly, only the males of the priestly families could eat of the things here specified.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v9 And are. Hebrew, "This shall be thine, of the…
And are. Hebrew, "This shall be thine, of the most holy things, from the fire." Some parts of the victims for sin and of the libations were to be consumed, while the rest was given to the priests. These libations were not properly styled holy of holies, (which were to be eaten only in the holy place, by those who were in actual service) no more than the peace-offerings were, of which even women might partake, ver. 11, 12., and Leviticus x. 14.
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).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv9–10 9. Meat offering — See Leviticus 2, notes.
9. Meat offering — See Leviticus 2, notes.
Sin offering — See Lev_4:3, note.
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Trespass offering — R.V., “guilt offering.” See Leviticus v, Introductory Note, and Lev_5:6, note. The burnt offering is omitted from the priestly revenues because none of it was reserved from the fire of the altar except the skin, which was a perquisite of the priest. Lev_7:8, notes.
Most holy — See Lev_2:3; Lev_6:25, notes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv9–10 9. The portions ‘[reserved] from the fire’ on the…
9. The portions ‘[reserved] from the fire’ on the altar were a ‘handful’ or a small undefined quantity of the meal-offerings (Lev_2:2; Lev_2:9; Lev_2:16; Lev_5:12; Lev_6:15), and in the case of animal offerings certain portions of the fat (described in Lev_3:3-5; Lev_7:3-5). The blood, which represented the sacred life of the animal, was never eaten, but was poured out.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv9–10 (9) From the fire.—i.e., from the fire which was…
(9) From the fire.—i.e., from the fire which was kindled upon the altar of burnt offering.
Every oblation of their’s, every meat offering of their’s . . . —Or, every oblation of their’s for all their meat offerings, and for all their sin offerings, and for all their trespass offerings (or, guilt offerings).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Reserved from fire, i.e., from the sacrificial altar. Every…
Reserved from fire, i.e., from the sacrificial altar. Every oblation of theirs. As specified in the following clauses. The burnt offering is not mentioned because it was wholly consumed, and only the skin fell to the priest. The sin offerings for the priest or for the congregation were also wholly consumed, (Lev_4:12, Lev_4:21) but the sin offerings of private individuals, although in no case partaken of by the offerers, were available for the priests, (Lev_6:26) and this was the ordinary case.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v10 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
God continues speaking to Aaron.
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set apart
people group
Israel
clean
family
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v9 18:9-11 The most holy offerings were consumed only by…
18:9-11 The most holy offerings were consumed only by Aaron and his sons, the priests set apart to serve in God’s presence (Exod 28:1; 29:44-46). • This portion was a holy offering presented to God, and the priests had to respect it as such (Num 18:10). Other categories of offerings provided food for the priests and their families (18:11-12), but only if they were ceremonially clean.
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