Leviticus 10:14
וְאֵת חֲזֵה הַתְּנוּפָה וְאֵת׀ שׁוֹק הַתְּרוּמָה תֹּֽאכְלוּ בְּמָקוֹם טָהוֹר אַתָּה וּבָנֶיךָ וּבְנֹתֶיךָ אִתָּךְ כִּֽי־חָקְךָ וְחָק־בָּנֶיךָ נִתְּנוּ מִזִּבְחֵי שַׁלְמֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
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וְאֵת֩ חֲזֵ֨ה הַתְּנוּפָ֜ה וְאֵ֣ת׀ שׁ֣וֹק הַתְּרוּמָ֗ה תֹּֽאכְלוּ֙ בְּמָק֣וֹם טָה֔וֹר אַתָּ֕ה וּבָנֶ֥יךָ וּבְנֹתֶ֖יךָ אִתָּ֑ךְ כִּֽי־חָקְךָ֤ וְחָק־בָּנֶ֙יךָ֙ נִתְּנ֔וּ מִזִּבְחֵ֥י שַׁלְמֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
καὶ τὸ στηθύνιον τοῦ ἀφορίσματος καὶ τὸν βραχίονα τοῦ ἀφαιρέματος φάγεσθε ἐν τόπῳ ἁγίῳ, σὺ καὶ οἱ υἱοί σου καὶ ὁ οἶκός μετὰ σοῦ· νόμιμον γὰρ σοὶ καὶ νόμιμον τοῖς υἱοῖς σου ἐδόθη ἀπὸ τῶν θυσιῶν τοῦ σωτηρίου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Pectusculum quoque quod oblatum est, et armum qui separatus est, edetis in loco mundissimo tu et filii tui, et filiæ tuæ tecum: tibi enim ac liberis tuis reposita sunt de hostiis salutaribus filiorum Israël:
Además, el pecho de la ofrenda mecida y el muslo de la ofrenda especial podrán comerlos tú, tus hijos y tus hijas en un lugar ceremonialmente limpio, porque se les han dado como su porción de los sacrificios de paz de los israelitas.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Comeréis asimismo en lugar limpio, tú y tus hijos y tus hijas contigo, el pecho de la mecida, y la espaldilla elevada, porque por fuero para ti, y fuero para tus hijos, son dados de los sacrificios de las paces de los hijos de Israel.
And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse instructs that the priest, together with his sons and daughters, may eat the chazeh ("breast", H2373) of the wave-offering and the shoq ("thigh", H7785) of the contribution in a ritually pure place. This portion is designated as their fixed share from the peace offerings brought by the Israelites.
Key words
- chazeh ("breast of", H2373) — construct noun linking to "the wave-offering," naming the specific animal part allotted.
- tenufah ("wave-offering", H8573) — feminine noun designating the ritual category of offering from which the breast comes.
- tahor ("pure", H2889) — adjective modifying maqom ("place", H4725), specifying the ritual condition required for the location of eating.
- choq ("prescribed portion", H2706H) — appears twice in construct form ("your choq... and the choq of your sons"), stressing that this is a fixed, legally defined share, not an incidental gift.
- nitnu ("they have been given", H5414G) — niphal perfect verb, marking the portion as already established/assigned by a prior act, with the agent left unstated (passive construction).
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence opens with two direct objects marked by 'et (H0853): the chazeh of the tenufah and the shoq of the terumah, both governed by the verb tokhelu ("you will eat", H0398), a qal imperfect second-person plural addressed to Aaron and his sons collectively. The subjects permitted to eat are then specified individually: 'atah ("you", H0859A), vaneikha ("your sons", H1121A), and venoteikha ("your daughters", H1323G), joined by the preposition 'itakh ("with you", H0854+H9031), which reinforces inclusion of the daughters alongside the son(s) already named in the verb form.
The clause beginning with ki ("for/that", H3588A) provides the legal grounding: the portion is called choq twice, once for "you" and once for "your sons," a repetition that grammatically isolates the beneficiaries even though daughters were named earlier as eaters. The verb nitnu is niphal perfect, describing the portion as already given, with the source specified as mi-zivchei shalmei benei Yisra'el ("from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel", H2077, H8002, H1121G, H3478), a chain of construct nouns tracing the offering back to its origin among the Israelite community.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders the required location as ἐν τόπῳ ἁγίῳ ("in a holy place") where the Hebrew has be-maqom tahor ("in a pure place", H2889), a difference in the qualifying adjective for the space. The LXX also reads ὁ οἶκός ("the household") where the Hebrew explicitly lists u-venoteikha ("and your daughters", H1323G) among those permitted to eat; the Vulgate's filiæ tuæ ("your daughters") aligns with the Hebrew text on this point rather than with the LXX's more general "household" term.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.