Numbers 18:18
Good News Translation
The meat from them belongs to you, like the breast and the right hind leg of the special offering.

New Revised Standard Version
but their flesh shall be yours, just as the breast that is elevated and as the right thigh are yours.

Contemporary English Version
You are allowed to eat the meat of those animals, just as you can eat the choice ribs and the right hind leg of the special sacrifices.

New American Bible
Their meat, however, shall be yours, just as the brisket of the elevated offering and the right thigh belong to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder shall be thine.

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But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder shall be thine.

Exodus 29:26-28 Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram, wherewith Aaron was consecrated, and elevating it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord, and it shall fall to thy share. . . .

Leviticus 7:31-34 Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. . . .

Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
17But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord. Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord. 18But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast, and the right shoulder shall be thine.19All 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.…
Cross References
Leviticus 7:31
Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Leviticus 7:34
For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is separated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their victims of peace offerings: and have given them to Aaron the priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel.

1 Samuel 9:24
And the cook took up the shoulder, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said: Behold what is left, set it before thee, and eat; because it was kept of purpose for thee, when I invited the people. And Saul ate with Samuel that day.

Numbers 18:17
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