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Give them the first gatherings of your grain, wine, and oil, as well as wool from the shearing of your flock. 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

“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.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:5 Lit. sons
  2. Deuteronomy 18:5 Lit. days

You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,(A) for the Lord your God has chosen them(B) and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister(C) in the Lord’s name always.(D)

If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the Lord will choose,(E)

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