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30 “Also tell them: When you contribute the best part, your contribution will be considered to be produce from the threshing floor or winepress. 31 So you and your households may eat it anywhere, because it’s the wages you receive for your work at the tent of meeting. 32 When you contribute the best part, you won’t suffer the consequences of any sin. You won’t be dishonoring the holy offerings given by the Israelites, and you won’t die.”

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30 “Say to the Levites: ‘When you present the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the product of the threshing floor or the winepress.(A) 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.(B) 32 By presenting the best part(C) of it you will not be guilty in this matter;(D) then you will not defile the holy offerings(E) of the Israelites, and you will not die.’”

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30 Therefore you shall say to them: ‘When you have lifted up the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress. 31 You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is (A)your [a]reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting. 32 And you shall (B)bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the best of it. But you shall not (C)profane the holy gifts of the children of Israel, lest you die.’ ”

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  1. Numbers 18:31 wages

30 Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered from it the best of it, (A)then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress. 31 And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is (B)your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. 32 And you shall (C)bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not (D)profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.’”

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