Numbers 18:10
Good News Translation
You must eat these things in a holy place, and only males may eat them; consider them holy.

New Revised Standard Version
As a most holy thing you shall eat it; every male may eat it; it shall be holy to you.

Contemporary English Version
Since these things are sacred, they must be eaten near the sacred tent, but only men are allowed to eat them.

New American Bible
You shall eat them in a most holy place; every male may partake of them. As holy, they belong to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.

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Exodus 29:31,32 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and shalt boil the flesh thereof in the holy place: . . .

Leviticus 6:16,26,29 And the part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall eat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court of the tabernacle. . . .

Leviticus 7:6 Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

Leviticus 10:13,17 And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and thy sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been commanded me. . . .

Leviticus 14:13 He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For as that which is for sin, so also the victim for a trespass offering pertaineth to the priest: it is holy of holies.

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Leviticus 6:18,29 The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified. . . .

Leviticus 7:6 Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

Leviticus 21:22 He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the sanctuary.

Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
9These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons. 10Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.11But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.…
Cross References
Leviticus 6:18
The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of the Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

Numbers 18:9
These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons.

Numbers 18:11
But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.

Ezekiel 42:13
And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers of the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord into the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place.

Numbers 18:9
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