Numbers 18:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 10:10 : 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 : 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 Cor 9:10-14 : 10 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. 11 If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world? 12 If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ. 13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar? 14 Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
  • 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching. 18 For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.
  • Deut 14:22-23 : 22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year. 23 And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.
  • 2 Cor 12:13 : 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.
  • Gal 6:6 : 6 But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 10:13-15
    3 verses
    81%

    13It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.

    14And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.

    15Let them take the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, with the fat of the burned offering, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord; and this will be for you and for your sons with you, for a right for ever, as the Lord has given orders.

  • Num 18:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.

    10As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.

    11And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food.

  • Num 18:32
    79%

    32And 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.

  • Num 18:27-30
    4 verses
    78%

    27And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.

    28So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.

    29From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.

    30Say 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.

  • Num 18:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

    7And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

  • Deut 12:7
    78%

    7There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • Deut 15:20
    77%

    20But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

  • Deut 12:18
    77%

    18But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

  • Lev 6:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16Every meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food.

    17And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 29:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    31Then take the sheep of the wave offering and let its flesh be cooked in water in a holy place.

    32And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • Num 18:21
    75%

    21And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • Num 7:5
    75%

    5Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work.

  • Num 18:23
    75%

    23But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

  • Deut 18:8
    75%

    8His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.

  • Ezek 44:29
    75%

    29Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs.

  • Num 18:18
    75%

    18Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.

  • Lev 8:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, The flesh is to be cooked in water at the door of the Tent of meeting, and there you are to take it as food, together with the bread in the basket, as I have given orders, saying, It is the food of Aaron and his sons.

    32And that which is over of the flesh and of the bread is to be burned with fire.

  • Lev 7:6
    74%

    6Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • Lev 10:17
    74%

    17Why did you not make a meal of the sin-offering in the holy place? For it is most holy and he has given it to you, so that the sin of the people may be put on it, to take away their sin before the Lord.

  • Num 18:13
    74%

    13The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.

  • 1 Chr 23:32
    74%

    32And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

  • Num 15:19
    74%

    19Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.

  • Num 8:15
    73%

    15After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.

  • Exod 16:16
    73%

    16This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.

  • Lev 24:9
    73%

    9And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.

  • Deut 12:25
    73%

    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 16:7
    73%

    7It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents.

  • Lev 19:8
    73%

    8And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.

  • Num 3:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;

    8And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

  • Exod 29:26
    72%

    26Then take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it before the Lord; and it is to be your part of the offering.

  • Deut 18:3
    72%

    3And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.

  • Exod 30:16
    72%

    16And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives.

  • Lev 25:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

    7And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Deut 26:11
    72%

    11And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.

  • Lev 21:22
    72%

    22He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;