Numbers 18:11
Good News Translation
"In addition, any other special contributions that the Israelites present to me shall be yours. I am giving them to you, your sons, and your daughters for all time to come. Every member of your family who is ritually clean may eat them.

New Revised Standard Version
This also is yours: I have given to you, together with your sons and daughters, as a perpetual due, whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the elevation offerings of the Israelites; everyone who is clean in your house may eat them.

Contemporary English Version
You will also receive part of the special gifts and offerings that the Israelites bring to me. Any member of your family who is clean and acceptable for worship can eat these things.

New American Bible
This also you shall have: the contributions that are their gifts, including the elevated offering of the Israelites; I assign them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual due. All in your household who are clean may eat them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the heave

Numbers 18:8 And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances.

Exodus 29:27,28 And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst separate of the ram, . . .

Leviticus 7:14,30-34 Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for firstfruits, and shall be the priest's that shall pour out the blood of the victim. . . .

unto thee

Leviticus 10:14 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.

Deuteronomy 18:3 This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:

every one

Leviticus 22:2,3,11-13 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord. . . .

Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
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.12All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.…
Cross References
Leviticus 7:14
Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for firstfruits, and shall be the priest's that shall pour out the blood of the victim.

Leviticus 7:31
Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Leviticus 10:14
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.

Leviticus 22:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses saying:

Leviticus 22:7
And the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat of the sanctified things, because it is his meat.

Numbers 18:1
And the Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the sins of your priesthood.

Numbers 18:10
Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat thereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.

Numbers 18:19
All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.

Deuteronomy 18:3
This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:

Numbers 18:10
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