17 You must not eat in your own towns the tithe(A) of your grain and new wine and olive oil,(B) or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give,(C) or your freewill offerings or special gifts.(D) 18 Instead, you are to eat(E) them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God will choose(F)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice(G) before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to. 19 Be careful not to neglect the Levites(H) as long as you live in your land.(I)

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17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

18 But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

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