Deuteronomy 18:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ For the Lord your God has chosen them and their descendants^[a] from among your tribes to stand and serve in the name of the Lord all their lives.”^[b]

Provision for the Itinerant Levite

⁶ “Any descendant of Levi who wishes to do so may come from any city or part of Israel where he resides to the place that the Lord will choose. ⁷ There he may serve in the name of the Lord his God. Like his fellow descendants of Levi who stand there in the Lord’s presence,