18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
18 Their meat is to be yours, just as the breast of the wave offering and the right thigh are yours.
18 But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.
18 But you get the meat, just as you get the breast from the Wave-Offering and the right thigh.
18 And their flesh shall be yours, just as the wave breast and the right thigh are yours.
18 The meat of these animals will be yours, just like the breast and right thigh that are presented by lifting them up as a special offering before the altar.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 18:18
Commentary on Numbers 18:8-19
(Read Numbers 18:8-19)
All believers are spiritual priests, and God has promised to take care of them. Godliness has the promise of the life that now is. And from the provision here made for the priests, the apostle shows that it is the duty of christian churches to maintain their ministers. Scandalous maintenance makes scandalous ministers. The priests were to be wholly devoted to their ministry, not diverted from it, or disturbed in it, by worldly care or business. Also, that they might be examples of living by faith, not only in God's providence, but in his ordinances. The best should be offered for the first-fruits unto the Lord. Those who think to save, by putting God off with the refuse, deceive themselves, for God is not mocked.