Deuteronomy 12:19
What does Deuteronomy 12:19 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 12:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862take heed to thee lest thou forsake the Levite all thy days on thy ground.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite all the days thou shalt be in thy land.
Context
v.18but thou shalt eat them before Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.
v.19This passage
v.20When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 11:13
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.
- Nehemiah 10:34
And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;
- 2 Chronicles 31:4
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Jehovah.
- Deuteronomy 14:27
And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.
- 1 Corinthians 9:10
or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking.
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