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Deuteronomy 18:6
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4 aThe 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 athe Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes bto 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 adwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind bto the place which the Lord chooses,  
7 then he may serve in the name of the Lord his God aas all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord.  
8 They shall have equal aportions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.  

Avoid Wicked Customs

9 “When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, ayou shall not learn to follow the1 abominations of those nations.  
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter apass through the fire, bor one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,  
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Deuteronomy 18:6-8

These verses presuppose that part of the Levites only will be in residence and officiating at the place of the sanctuary, the others of course dwelling at their own homes in the Levitical cities, or "sojourning" elsewhere; compare the marginal references. But if any Levite out of love for the service of the sanctuary chose to resort to it when he might reside in his own home, he was to have his share in the maintenance which was provided for those ministering in the order of their course.

Deuteronomy 18:8

Beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony - The Levites had indeed "no part nor inheritance with Israel," but they might individually possess property, and in fact often did so (compare I Kings 2:26; Jeremiah 32:7; Acts 4:36). The Levite who desired to settle at the place of the sanctuary would probably sell his patrimony when quitting his former home. The text directs that he should, notwithstanding any such private resources, duly enjoy his share of the perquisites provided for the ministers at the sanctuary, and as he was "waiting at the altar" should be "partaker with the altar" I Corinthians 9:13.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Deuteronomy 18:6:

Acts 4:36

 

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