Numbers 18:32 “Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt…”

Numbers 18:32

Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

World English Bible

You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.’”

American Standard Version

And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best thereof: and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.

Geneva Bible 1599

And ye shall beare no sinne by the reason of it, when ye haue offred the fatte of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

Darby Translation

And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, if ye heave from it the best of it; and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

Young's Literal Translation

and ye bear no sin for it, in your lifting up its fat out of it, and the holy things of the sons of Israel ye do not pollute, and ye die not.'

Bible in Basic English

And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

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Cross references

“bear”

Leviticus 19:8 Numbers 18:22

Leviticus 19:8 · BSB

Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.

Numbers 18:22 · BSB

No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

“pollute”

Leviticus 22:2 Malachi 1:7 1 Corinthians 11:27 1 Corinthians 11:29 Leviticus 22:15

Leviticus 22:2 · BSB

“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD.

Malachi 1:7 · BSB

By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

1 Corinthians 11:27 · BSB

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:29 · BSB

For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

Leviticus 22:15 · BSB

The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

31And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.

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