申命记 18:7

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他就可以奉耶和華他的　神的名供職，像他的眾兄弟利未人在那裡侍立在耶和華面前一樣。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
就 要 奉 耶 和 华 ─ 他 　 神 的 名 事 奉 ， 像 他 众 弟 兄 利 未 人 侍 立 在 耶 和 华 面 前 事 奉 一 样 。

Contextual Overview

¹ The priests are from the tribe of Levi, and that tribe will not receive a share of the land with the Israelites. They will eat the offerings made to the Lord by fire, which is their share. ² They will not inherit any of the land like their brothers, but they will inherit the Lord himself, as he has promised them. ³ When you offer a bull or sheep as a sacrifice, you must share with the priests, giving them the shoulder, the cheeks, and the inner organs. ⁴ Give them the first of your grain, new wine, and oil, as well as the first wool you cut from your sheep. ⁵ The Lord your God has chosen the priests and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and serve the Lord always. ⁶ If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he lives and comes to the place the Lord will choose, because he wants to serve the Lord there, ⁷ he may serve the Lord his God. He will be like his fellow Levites who serve there before the Lord . ⁸ They all will have an equal share of the food. That is separate from what he has received from the sale of family possessions.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as all his brethren: 2 Chronicles 31:2-4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:12 - the priest

Cross-References

Genesis 18:15
Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, "I didn't laugh." But the Lord said, "No. You did laugh."

Genesis 18:16
Then the men got up to leave and started out toward Sodom. Abraham walked along with them a short time to send them on their way.

Genesis 19:3
But Lot begged them to come, so they agreed and went to his house. Then Lot prepared a meal for them. He baked bread without yeast, and they ate it.

Amos 6:4
You lie on beds decorated with ivory and stretch out on your couches. You eat tender lambs and fattened calves.

Malachi 1:14
"The person who cheats will be cursed. He has a male animal in his flock and promises to offer it, but then he offers to the Lord an animal that has something wrong with it. I am a great king," says the Lord All-Powerful, "and I am feared by all the nations.

Matthew 22:4
"Then the king sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited that my feast is ready. I have killed my best bulls and calves for the dinner, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.'

Luke 15:23
And get our fat calf and kill it so we can have a feast and celebrate.

Luke 15:27
The servant said, ‘Your brother has come back, and your father killed the fat calf, because your brother came home safely.'

Luke 15:30
But your other son, who wasted all your money on prostitutes, comes home, and you kill the fat calf for him!'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God,.... The Targum of Jonathan is,

"he shall minister in the name of the Word of the Lord his God;''

in the name of Christ, as a type of him, as every priest and every sacrifice were: he was to be allowed to officiate, though it was not his course or turn:

as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord; daily offering the same sacrifices, and whatsoever are brought unto them; who might be said to stand before the Lord, because they stood at the altar of the Lord, and offered the sacrifices of the people to him; and a country Levite or priest was to be admitted to do the same thing at Jerusalem, and in the temple there, as they did; and this shows that a priest is meant by the Levite.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 1 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” 1 Corinthians 9:13.