Parallel Verses
Youngs 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;
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.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting.
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.
A Conservative 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.
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.
Amplified
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).
Bible in Basic English
It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.
Darby Translation
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households; for it is your reward for your service in the tent of meeting.
Julia Smith Translation
And ye ate it in every place, ye and your house; for it is the reward to you for your service in the tent of appointment
King James 2000
And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of meeting.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You may eat it anywhere, you and your household, because it [is] a wage in return for your service in the tent of assembly.
Modern King James verseion
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And ye shall eat it in all places, both ye and your households, for it is your rewards for your service in the tabernacle of witness.
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 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.
The Emphasized Bible
And ye shall eat it in any place, ye, and your household, - for a reward, it is unto you, the allotted portion for your laborious work in the tent of meeting.
Webster
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 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.
Themes
Food » Grace before » of priests
Levites » Emoluments of » Food of
Levites » Tithes and other offerings
the Levites » Bound to give a tenth of their tithes to the priests
Offerings » Wave » To be eaten
Interlinear
Maqowm
`abodah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 18:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instructions For The Levites
30 'And thou hast said unto them, In your lifting up its fat out of it, then it hath been reckoned to the Levites, as increase of a threshing-floor, and as increase of a wine-vat; 31 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; 32 and ye bear no sin for it, in your lifting up its fat out of it, and the holy things of the sons of Israel ye do not pollute, and ye die not.'
Cross References
Matthew 10:10
nor scrip for the way, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor staff -- for the workman is worthy of his nourishment.
Luke 10:7
And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy is the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,
1 Corinthians 9:10-14
or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.
1 Timothy 5:17-18
The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,
Deuteronomy 14:22-23
'Thou dost certainly tithe all the increase of thy seed which the field is bringing forth year by year;
2 Corinthians 12:13
for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!
Galatians 6:6
And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.