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Deuteronomy 18:5-7
Contemporary English Version
Deuteronomy 18:5-7
Contemporary English Version
5 Give these gifts to the priests, because the Lord has chosen them and their descendants out of all the tribes of Israel to be his special servants at the place of worship.
6 Any Levite can leave his hometown, and go to the place where the Lord chooses to be worshiped, 7 and then be a special servant of the Lord[a] there, just like all the other Levites.
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- 18.7 a special servant of the Lord: Or “one of the Lord's priests.”
Deuteronomy 18:5-7
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Deuteronomy 18:5-7
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5 for the Lord your God has chosen them(A) and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister(B) in the Lord’s name always.(C)
6 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,(D) 7 he may minister in the name(E) of the Lord his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the Lord.
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