28-30 “As to priests owning land, I am their inheritance. Don’t give any land in Israel to them. I am their ‘land,’ their inheritance. They’ll take their meals from the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel offered to God in worship is theirs. The best of everything grown, plus all special gifts, comes to the priests. All that is given in worship to God goes to them. Serve them first. Serve from your best and your home will be blessed.

31 “Priests are not to eat any meat from bird or animal unfit for ordinary human consumption, such as carcasses found dead on the road or in the field.”

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29 They will eat(A) the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted[a] to the Lord(B) will belong to them.(C) 30 The best of all the firstfruits(D) and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal(E) so that a blessing(F) may rest on your household.(G) 31 The priests must not eat anything, whether bird or animal, found dead(H) or torn by wild animals.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 44:29 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord.