31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Other Translations of Numbers 18:31

New International Version

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.

English Standard Version

31 And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

The Message

31 You and your households are free to eat the rest of it anytime and anyplace - it's your wages for your work at the Tent of Meeting.

New King James Version

31 You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting.

New Living Translation

31 You Levites and your families may eat this food anywhere you wish, for it is your compensation for serving in the Tabernacle.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 18:31

Commentary on Numbers 18:20-32

(Read Numbers 18:20-32)

As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in 2 Thessalonians 3:10. 2. We must be sure that God has his dues out of it. We have the comfort of our substance, when we have honoured the Lord with it. Ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved the best from it. We should give alms of such things as we have, that all may be holy and comfortable to us.