Parallel Verses
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.
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 Therefore you shall say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress. 31 You may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting. 32 And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'"
Cross References
Matthew 10:10
no bag for your journey, nor two tunics nor sandals nor a staff, for the laborer deserves his food.
Luke 10:7
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.
1 Corinthians 9:10-14
Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
1 Timothy 5:17-18
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
Deuteronomy 14:22-23
"You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.
2 Corinthians 12:13
For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
Galatians 6:6
One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches.