Deuteronomy 18:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

This shall be the priests’ fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep– they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 7:30-34 : 30 With his own hands he must bring the LORD’s gifts. He must bring the fat with the breast to wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD, 31 and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons. 32 The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices. 33 The one from Aaron’s sons who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat will have the right thigh as his share, 34 for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion.’”
  • Deut 12:27 : 27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 18:18
    84%

    18And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.

  • Lev 7:30-34
    5 verses
    82%

    30With his own hands he must bring the LORD’s gifts. He must bring the fat with the breast to wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD,

    31and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.

    32The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices.

    33The one from Aaron’s sons who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat will have the right thigh as his share,

    34for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion.’”

  • Deut 18:4
    80%

    4You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

  • Lev 10:13-15
    3 verses
    78%

    13You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts of the LORD, for this is what I have been commanded.

    14Also, the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a ceremonially clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you, for they have been given as your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the peace offering sacrifices of the Israelites.

    15The thigh of the contribution offering and the breast of the wave offering they must bring in addition to the gifts of the fat parts to wave them as a wave offering before the LORD, and it will belong to you and your sons with you for a perpetual statute just as the LORD has commanded.”

  • Lev 3:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9Then he must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove all the fatty tail up to the end of the spine, the fat covering the entrails, and all the fat on the entrails,

    10the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys).

    11Then the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar as a food gift to the LORD.

  • Lev 8:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25Then he took the fat(the fatty tail, all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat) and the right thigh,

    26and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD he took one unleavened loaf, one loaf of bread mixed with olive oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat parts and on the right thigh.

  • Lev 7:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8Priestly Portions of Burnt and Grain Offerings“‘As for the priest who presents someone’s burnt offering, the hide of that burnt offering which he presented belongs to him.

    9Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    76%

    15Also, before they burned the fat the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice,“Give some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

  • Lev 4:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys)

    10– just as it is taken from the ox of the peace offering sacrifice– and the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.

  • Lev 7:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

    4the two kidneys and the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he must remove along with the kidneys).

    5Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a gift to the LORD. It is a guilt offering.

  • Exod 29:22
    75%

    22“You are to take from the ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh– for it is the ram for consecration–

  • Num 5:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

    10Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

  • Lev 3:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3Then the one presenting the offering must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that surrounds the entrails,

    4the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys).

  • Num 18:27-31
    5 verses
    75%

    27And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.

    28Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the LORD of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the LORD’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest.

    29From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the LORD, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’

    30“Therefore you will say to them,‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

    31And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

  • Exod 29:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26You are to take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration; you are to wave it as a wave offering before the LORD, and it is to be your share.

    27You are to sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which were waved and lifted up as a contribution from the ram of consecration, from what belongs to Aaron and to his sons.

  • Lev 3:14-16
    3 verses
    74%

    14Then he must present from it his offering as a gift to the LORD: the fat which covers the entrails and all the fat on the entrails,

    15the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys).

    16Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD.

  • Num 31:29
    74%

    29You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the LORD.

  • Deut 18:8
    73%

    8He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.

  • Num 15:3
    73%

    3and you make an offering by fire to the LORD from the herd or from the flock(whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

  • Lev 9:19
    72%

    19As for the fat parts from the ox and from the ram(the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the protruding lobe of the liver),

  • Exod 22:30
    72%

    30You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

  • Num 18:11
    72%

    11“And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

  • Ezek 44:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

    30The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

  • Deut 18:2
    72%

    2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

  • Lev 1:10
    72%

    10Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering– from the sheep or the goats– he must present a flawless male,

  • Lev 8:29
    72%

    29Finally, Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the LORD from the ram of ordination. It was Moses’ share just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • 1 Sam 2:13
    72%

    13This was the priests’ routine with the people. Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand, just as the meat was boiling.