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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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New King James Version

Deuteronomy 18:5

For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - First Fruits;   Levites;   Liberality;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - First Fruits, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Priesthood;   Sanctuary;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Alms;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Rechab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Priests and Levites;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Ezekiel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Covenant;   Priest;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes to stand and minister in his name from now on.
Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
King James Version
For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lord , him and his sons for ever.
Lexham English Bible
For Yahweh your God has chosen him from among all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, he and his sons forever.
English Standard Version
For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord , him and his sons for all time.
New Century Version
The Lord your God has chosen the priests and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and serve the Lord always.
New English Translation
For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.
Amplified Bible
"For the LORD your God has chosen him, him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand and serve in the name of the LORD forever.
New American Standard Bible
"For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand to serve in the name of the LORD always.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lorde thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stande and minister in the Name of the Lord, him, and his sonnes for euer.
Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh all the days.
Contemporary English Version
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
For Adonai your God has chosen him from all your tribes to stand and serve in the name of Adonai , him and his sons forever.
Darby Translation
for Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, that he may stand to serve in the name of Jehovah, he and his sons continually.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is because the Lord your God looked at all your tribes and chose Levi and his descendants to serve him as priests forever.
George Lamsa Translation
For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD your God, him and his sons for ever.
Good News Translation
The Lord chose from all your tribes the tribe of Levi to serve him as priests forever.
Literal Translation
For Jehovah your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the name of Jehovah, he and his sons continually.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the LORDE thy God hath chosen him out of all thy trybes, to stonde and mynyster in the name of the LORDE, he and his sonnes all the dayes of their life.
American Standard Version
For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons for ever.
Bible in Basic English
For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde thy God hath chosen hym out of all thy tribes, to stande and to minister in the name of the Lorde, he and his sonnes for euer.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
King James Version (1611)
For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the Name of the Lord, him, and his sonnes for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
because the Lord has chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord thy God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thi Lord God chees hym of alle thi lynagis, that he stonde and mynystre to `the name of the Lord, he and hise sones, with outen ende.
Young's Literal Translation
for on him hath Jehovah thy God fixed, out of all thy tribes, to stand to serve in the name of Jehovah, He and his sons continually.
Update Bible Version
For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons forever.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
World English Bible
For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.
New Living Translation
For the Lord your God chose the tribe of Levi out of all your tribes to minister in the Lord 's name forever.
New Life Bible
For the Lord your God has chosen him and his sons from all your families, to stand and serve in the name of the Lord forever.
New Revised Standard
For the Lord your God has chosen Levi out of all your tribes, to stand and minister in the name of the Lord , him and his sons for all time.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For of him, hath Yahweh thy God made choice out of all thy tribes, - to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh of him and his sons all the days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand and to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.
Revised Standard Version
For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand and serve in the name of the LORD forever.

Contextual Overview

1 "The priests, the Levites--all the tribe of Levi--shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion. 2 Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them. 3 "And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach. 4 The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 5 For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever. 6 "So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD chooses, 7 then he may serve in the name of the LORD his God as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD. 8 They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 10:8, Deuteronomy 17:12, Exodus 28:1-14, Numbers 3:10, Numbers 16:5, Numbers 16:9, Numbers 16:10, Numbers 17:5-9, Numbers 25:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:5 - for them Judges 20:28 - stood

Cross-References

Genesis 19:8
See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof."
Genesis 33:10
And Jacob said, "No, please, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present from my hand, inasmuch as I have seen your face as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
Judges 6:18
Do not depart from here, I pray, until I come to You and bring out my offering and set it before You." And He said, "I will wait until you come back."
Judges 13:15
Then Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, "Please let us detain You, and we will prepare a young goat for You."
Judges 19:5
Then it came to pass on the fourth day that they arose early in the morning, and he stood to depart; but the young woman's father said to his son-in-law, "Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way."
Psalms 104:15
And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man's heart.
Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;
Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes,.... That is, has chosen the tribe of Levi out of all the other tribes of Israel:

to stand to minister in the name of the Lord; the priests to minister to the Lord by offering sacrifices, and the Levites to minister to the priests in assisting them in their service; and both their ministry were in the name of the Lord, and for his glory, and done standing; for there was no sitting in the sanctuary w; the priestly ministry was only performed standing x, whatever was done sitting was rejected y; see Hebrews 10:11,

him and his sons for ever; Levi and his posterity, or the posterity of the tribe of Levi, were chosen by the Lord to this service, to be employed in it as long as the ceremonial law continued, on which stood the Levitical priesthood; but both are now abolished by Christ, having their accomplishment in him, Hebrews 7:11.

w Maimon. in Misn. Zebachim, c. 2. sect. 1. x Bartenora in ib. y Misn. ib.


 
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