Ezekiel 44:29
New International Version
They will eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

New Living Translation
Their food will come from the gifts and sacrifices brought to the Temple by the people—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Whatever anyone sets apart for the LORD will belong to the priests.

English Standard Version
They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Berean Standard Bible
They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

King James Bible
They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

New King James Version
They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

New American Standard Bible
They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and everything banned from secular use in Israel shall be theirs.

NASB 1995
“They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

NASB 1977
“They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Legacy Standard Bible
They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Amplified Bible
They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing (offering) in Israel [dedicated by a solemn vow to God] shall be theirs.

Christian Standard Bible
They will eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering. Everything in Israel that is permanently dedicated to the LORD will belong to them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the restitution offering. Everything in Israel that is permanently dedicated to the LORD will belong to them.

American Standard Version
They shall eat the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, they will receive part of the grain sacrifices, as well as part of the sacrifices for sin and sacrifices to make things right. They will also be given everything in Israel that has been completely dedicated to me.

English Revised Version
They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They will eat grain offerings, offerings for sin, and guilt offerings. Everything in Israel that is devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

Good News Translation
The grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the repayment offerings will be the priests' food, and they are to receive everything in Israel that is set apart for me.

International Standard Version
They are to eat the grain offerings, sin offering, and guilt offering. Everything consecrated in Israel is to belong to them.

Majority Standard Bible
They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

NET Bible
They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

New Heart English Bible
They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall eat the meat-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

World English Bible
They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they eat, and every devoted thing in Israel is theirs.

Young's Literal Translation
The present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they do eat, and every devoted thing in Israel is theirs.

Smith's Literal Translation
The gift and the sin and the trespass shall they eat; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be to them.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass: and every vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Catholic Public Domain Version
They shall eat the victim both for sin and for offenses. And every vowed offering in Israel shall be theirs.

New American Bible
They shall eat grain offerings, purification offerings, and reparation offerings; anything under the ban in Israel belongs to them;

New Revised Standard Version
They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
They shall eat the meal offering and the meat of the sin offering, and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The meal offering and the purification of the sin offering they shall eat, and every devoted thing that is in Israel shall be theirs
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they, even they, shall eat; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And these shall eat the meat-offerings, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; and every special offering in Israel shall be theirs.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Duties of the Priests
28In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. 29They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them. 30The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.…

Cross References
Leviticus 6:16-18
Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. / It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. / Any male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the food offerings to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that touches them will become holy.”

Numbers 18:8-9
Then the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute. / A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.

Deuteronomy 18:1-2
The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance. / Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

Leviticus 7:6-10
Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. / The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. / As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him. ...

Numbers 18:19
All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”

Leviticus 2:3
The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.

Numbers 18:11
And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.

Leviticus 10:12-15
And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy. / You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the food offerings to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded. / And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace offerings of the sons of Israel. ...

Numbers 18:20-21
Then the LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites. / Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

1 Corinthians 9:13-14
Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings? / In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

Hebrews 7:5
Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they too are descended from Abraham.

Leviticus 22:10-13
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it. / But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food. / If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions. ...

Numbers 18:24
For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

Deuteronomy 14:27-29
And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you. / At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates. / Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

1 Samuel 2:28
And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the food offerings of the Israelites.


Treasury of Scripture

They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

eat

Leviticus 2:3,10
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire…

Leviticus 6:14-18,26,29
And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar…

Leviticus 7:6
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

dedicated.

Leviticus 27:21,28
But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's…

compared with

Numbers 18:14
Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

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Ezekiel 44
1. The east gate assigned only to the prince
4. The priests reproved for polluting the sanctuary
9. Idolaters incapable of the priests office
15. The sons of Zadok are accepted thereto
17. Ordinances for the priests














They will eat
The phrase "They will eat" signifies the sustenance and provision for the priests, who are the direct recipients of these offerings. In the Hebrew context, the verb "eat" (אָכַל, 'akal) often implies not just physical consumption but also participation in the sacred and communal aspects of worship. Eating these offerings symbolizes the priests' integral role in the spiritual life of Israel, as they partake in what is holy and set apart for God.

the grain offerings
The "grain offerings" (מִנְחָה, minchah) were offerings of flour, oil, and frankincense, representing the fruits of human labor and dedication to God. Historically, these offerings were a staple in the sacrificial system, symbolizing thanksgiving and devotion. The priests consuming these offerings indicates their role as mediators between God and the people, sharing in the blessings and responsibilities of the covenant.

the sin offerings
"Sin offerings" (חַטָּאת, chatta'ath) were sacrifices made to atone for unintentional sins, emphasizing the need for purification and reconciliation with God. The priests eating these offerings underscores their duty to facilitate atonement and maintain the holiness of the community. It highlights the gravity of sin and the grace of God in providing a means for forgiveness.

and the guilt offerings
The "guilt offerings" (אָשָׁם, asham) were similar to sin offerings but specifically addressed offenses requiring restitution. This reflects the biblical principle of justice and restoration. The priests' consumption of these offerings signifies their role in upholding divine justice and guiding the people in making amends, thus restoring relationships both with God and within the community.

and everything in Israel devoted to the LORD
This phrase encompasses all items and offerings set apart for God, known as "cherem" (חֵרֶם), meaning devoted or consecrated. Historically, these were items irrevocably given to God, often through destruction or dedication. The priests' entitlement to these devoted things highlights their unique position as stewards of what is holy, entrusted with the sacred duty of managing and preserving the sanctity of God's possessions.

will belong to them
The phrase "will belong to them" indicates the provision and inheritance for the priestly class. In the context of ancient Israel, the priests did not receive a territorial inheritance like the other tribes; instead, their portion was the LORD and His offerings. This underscores the spiritual inheritance and the honor bestowed upon the priests, as they are sustained by what is holy and dedicated to God, reflecting their special relationship and service to Him.

Verse 29. - To the priests should be allocated, in addition, what already had been assigned them by the Law for their support, the meat (or, meal) offering, consisting of flour, corn, or bread (comp. Leviticus 2:1-16; Leviticus 6:16; Numbers 28:12, 13), and the sin offering (see Leviticus 6:25-29; Leviticus 7:6; Numbers 18:9, 10), and the trespass (or, guilt) offering (comp. Leviticus 7:28-38), and every dedicated (or, devoted) thing in Israel (see Leviticus 27:21; Numbers 18:14). The burnt offering is omitted, because it was entirely consumed upon the altar, with the exception of the hide or skin, which under the Law became a perquisite of the officiating priest (Leviticus 7:8). That Ezekiel is silent about this, while the requirement of Leviticus 7:30, that the priest should obtain the breast with the right shoulder of every fire offering, goes beyond the prescription of Deuteronomy 18:3, that the shoulder, two cheeks, and the maw should be the priest's portion, is regarded by Wellhausen and Smend as a proof that Ezekiel stands between Deuteronomy and the priest-code. But as Ezekiel does not condescend upon the particular parts which should be reserved from the fire offerings, it is impossible to say whether he held with the Deuteronomist or the writer of the priest-code, supposing them to be different; and, inasmuch as Leviticus 7:30 speaks of an offerings, by fire that was first paid to Jehovah and by him afterwards handed over to Aaron and his sons, while Deuteronomy 18:3 treats of the dues which should be paid by the people directly to the priests, it is clear that both practices may have existed together instead of the one (the former) coming in as an advance upon the other (the latter); see Keil on REFERENCE_WORK:Keil & DelitzschDeuteronomy 18:3.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They
הֵ֖מָּה (hêm·māh)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

shall eat
יֹֽאכְל֑וּם (yō·ḵə·lūm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the grain offerings,
הַמִּנְחָה֙ (ham·min·ḥāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering

the sin offerings,
וְהַחַטָּ֣את (wə·ha·ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

and the guilt offerings.
וְהָאָשָׁ֔ם (wə·hā·’ā·šām)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 817: Guilt, a fault, a sin-offering

Everything
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

in Israel
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

devoted
חֵ֥רֶם (ḥê·rem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2764: A net, a doomed object, extermination

to the LORD
יִהְיֶֽה׃ (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

will belong to them.
לָהֶ֥ם (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew


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