Deuteronomy 18:5-8

5 for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD’s name always.
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,
7 he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the LORD.
8 He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.

Deuteronomy 18:5-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 18

This chapter gives an account of the provision made for the priests and Levites, with the reason of it, De 18:1-5, of allowance of a country Levite to minister at Jerusalem, and take his portion with the rest, De 18:6-8, and of several persons of bad practices not to be suffered among the people of Israel, De 18:9-14, and of an extraordinary prophet that should be raised up among them, to whom they should hearken, or it would be the worse for them, De 18:15-19, but a false prophet was to be put to death, of whom a sign is given by which he might be known, De 18:20-22.

Cross References 6

  • 1. S Exodus 28:1
  • 2. Deuteronomy 10:8
  • 3. S Exodus 29:9
  • 4. S Numbers 35:2-3; S Deuteronomy 12:5
  • 5. ver 19; 1 Kings 18:32; 1 Kings 22:16; Psalms 118:26
  • 6. Numbers 18:24; 2 Chronicles 31:4; Nehemiah 12:44,47; Nehemiah 13:12
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