Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? |
Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar? |
Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share with the altar? |
Don’t you know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? |
Do you not know that those men who are employed in the services of the temple get their food from the temple? And that those who tend the altar share with the altar [in the offerings brought]? |
Do you not know positively that those who are engaged in the work relative to the sacred things of the temple derive their sustenance from the things that come out of the temple, that those who are in constant attendance at the altar have a share with the altar [in the sacrifice placed upon it]? |
Are you ignorant of the fact that those who minister sacred things take part of the sacred food of the Temple for their own use, and those who attend the altar have their share of what is placed on the altar? |
Do you not know that those who do the work about the temple get their living from the temple, and those who constantly attend on the altar share its offerings? |
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