29 Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to the Lord, from all the [a]best of them, the consecrated part of them.’ 30 Therefore you shall say to them: ‘When you have lifted up the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress. 31 You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is (A)your [b]reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:29 Lit. fat
  2. Numbers 18:31 wages

29 You must present as the Lord’s portion the best and holiest part of everything given to you.’

30 “Say to the Levites: ‘When you present the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the product of the threshing floor or the winepress.(A) 31 You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.(B)

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