◄ Deuteronomy 18:3 ►
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Good News Translation
"Whenever cattle or sheep are sacrificed, the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jaw, and the stomach.

New Revised Standard Version
This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two jowls, and the stomach.

Contemporary English Version
When you sacrifice a bull or sheep, the priests will be given the shoulder, the jaws, and the stomach.

New American Bible
This shall be the due of the priests from the people: those who are offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep, shall give the priest the shoulder, the jowls and the stomach.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:

offer a sacrifice

Deuteronomy 12:27 And shalt offer thy oblations, the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on the altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.

Leviticus 7:30-34 He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast. And when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest, . . .

Context
Provision for Priests and Levites
…2And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to them. 3This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:4The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.…
Cross References
Leviticus 7:31
Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

Leviticus 7:32
The right shoulder also of the victim, of peace offerings shall fall to the priest for firstfruits.

Numbers 18:11
But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and offer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.

Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

Deuteronomy 18:2
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