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Deuteronomy 12:19

Deuteronomy chapter 12 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest 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.