These offerings were used to take away their sins when they were made priests. Now they should eat those offerings.
Leviticus 10:14 - Easy To Read Version “Also you, your sons, and your daughters will be able to eat the breast from the wave offerings. {You don’t have to eat these in a holy place,} but you must eat them in a clean [122] place. Why? Because they come from the fellowship offerings. The people of Israel give those gifts to God. {The people eat part of those animals,} but the breast is your share. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you; for they are your due and your sons' due, given out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the Israelites. American Standard Version (1901) And the wave-breast and the heave-thigh shall ye eat in a clean place, thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they are given as thy portion, and thy sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace-offerings of the children of Israel. Common English Bible You must eat the breast for the uplifted offering and the thigh for the gift offering in a clean place—both you and your sons and daughters. These things are designated as your portion and your children’s portion from the Israelites’ communal sacrifices of well-being. Catholic Public Domain Version Likewise, the breast which is offered, and the shoulder which is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, you and your sons, and your daughters with you. For these have been set aside for you and your children from the victims which benefit the sons of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy children, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel. |
These offerings were used to take away their sins when they were made priests. Now they should eat those offerings.
The man said to me, “The north rooms and south rooms across from the restricted area are holy. These rooms are for the priests that offer the sacrifices to the Lord. That is where the priests will eat the most holy offerings. And that is where they will put the most holy offerings. Why? Because this place is holy. The most holy offerings are: the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings.
That is part of the offerings that were burned on the fire for the Lord. And the law I gave you teaches that a part belongs to you and your sons. But you must eat it in a holy place.
A priest’s daughter might become a widow, [393] or she might become divorced. If she does not have any children {to support her} and she goes back to her father’s house {where she lived} as a child, then she can eat some of her father’s food. But only people from a priest’s family can eat this food.
Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before the Lord, like Moses had commanded.
“And all the gifts that the Israelite people give as wave offerings will also be yours. I give this to you and your sons and your daughters. This is your share. Every person in your family that is clean [236] will be able to eat it.
“If one of the people of Israel gives a special gift {to God} then the priest that accepts that gift can keep it. It is his.
Jesus said, “My food is to do what the One (God) who sent me wants me to do. My food is to finish the work that he gave me to do.