“Accept these gifts from the leaders. These gifts can be used in the work of the Meeting Tent. [102] Give these things to the Levite men. This will help them do their work.”
Hebrews 13:10 - Easy To Read Version We have a sacrifice. {\cf2\super [173]} And those priests who serve in the Holy Tent {\cf2\super [174]} cannot eat from our sacrifice. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition We have an altar from which those who serve and worship in the tabernacle have no right to eat. American Standard Version (1901) We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle. Common English Bible We have an altar, and those who serve as priests in the meeting tent don’t have the right to eat from it. Catholic Public Domain Version We have an altar: those who serve in the tabernacle have no authority to eat from it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We have an altar, whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle. |
“Accept these gifts from the leaders. These gifts can be used in the work of the Meeting Tent. [102] Give these things to the Levite men. This will help them do their work.”
But I am saying that when food is sacrificed to idols, it is an offering to demons, {\cf2\super [74]} not to God. And I don’t want you to share anything with demons.
So if the food I eat makes another believer fall into sin, then I will never eat meat again. I will stop eating meat, so that I will not make my brother or sister sin.
The work that these priests do is really only a copy and a shadow of the things that are in heaven. That is why God warned Moses {\cf2\super [82]} when Moses was ready to build the Holy Tent {\cf2\super [83]} : “Be sure to make everything exactly like the pattern I showed you on the mountain.” {\cf2\super [84]}