Deuteronomy 18:7

7 he may serve the Lord his God. He will be like his fellow Levites who serve there before the Lord.

Deuteronomy 18:7 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 18:7

And he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God
The Targum of Jonathan is,

``he shall minister in the name of the Word of the Lord his God;''

in the name of Christ, as a type of him, as every priest and every sacrifice were: he was to be allowed to officiate, though it was not his course or turn:

as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord;
daily offering the same sacrifices, and whatsoever are brought unto them; who might be said to stand before the Lord, because they stood at the altar of the Lord, and offered the sacrifices of the people to him; and a country Levite or priest was to be admitted to do the same thing at Jerusalem, and in the temple there, as they did; and this shows that a priest is meant by the Levite.

Deuteronomy 18:7 In-Context

5 The Lord your God has chosen the priests and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and serve the Lord always.

6 If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he lives and comes to the place the Lord will choose, because he wants to serve the Lord there,

7 he may serve the Lord his God. He will be like his fellow Levites who serve there before the Lord.

8 They all will have an equal share of the food. That is separate from what he has received from the sale of family possessions.

9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, don't learn to do the hateful things the other nations do.