Parallel Verses
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.
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).
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.
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;
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 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed. 31 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. 32 And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.
Cross References
Matthew 10:10
Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.
Luke 10:7
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
1 Corinthians 9:10-14
Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
Deuteronomy 14:22-23
Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.
2 Corinthians 12:13
For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.
Galatians 6:6
But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.