Deuteronomy 12:19

Contemporary English Version

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and be careful not to neglect the Levite, as long as you live in your land.

Hebrew Names Version
Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

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

Lexham English Bible
Take care so that you do not neglect the Levite all of your days on your land.

English Standard Version
Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

New Century Version
Be careful not to forget the Levites as long as you live in the land.

New English Translation
Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.

Amplified Bible
"Be careful that you do not neglect the Levite [who serves God] as long as you live in your land.

New American Standard Bible
"Be careful that you do not abandon the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Beware, that thou forsake not the Leuite, as long as thou liuest vpon the earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
Beware lest you forsake the Levite all your days upon your land.

Complete Jewish Bible
As long as you are living on your property, take care not to abandon the Levi.

Darby Translation
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite all the days thou shalt be in thy land.

Easy-to-Read Version
But be sure that you always share these meals with the Levites. Do this as long as you live in your land.

George Lamsa Translation
Take heed to yourselves that you do not forsake the Levites as long as you live upon the earth.

Good News Translation
Be sure, also, not to neglect the Levites, as long as you live in your land.

Literal Translation
Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the land.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And bewarre, that thou forsake not the Leuite, as longe as thou lyuest vpon the earth.

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

Bible in Basic English
See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beware that thou forsake not the Leuite, as long as thou liuest vpon the earth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land.

King James Version (1611)
Take heed to thy selfe, that thou forsake not the Leuite, as long as thou liuest vpon the earth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take heed to thyself that thou do not desert the Levite all the time that thou livest upon the earth.

English Revised Version
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land.

Berean Standard Bible
and be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be thou war lest thou forsake the dekene in al tyme, `in which thou lyuest in erthe.

Young's Literal Translation
take heed to thee lest thou forsake the Levite all thy days on thy ground.

Update Bible Version
You be careful not to forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

World English Bible
Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

New King James Version
Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

New Living Translation
And be very careful never to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

New Life Bible
Be careful that you do not stop caring for the Levites as long as you live in your land.

New Revised Standard
Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Take heed to thyself, lest thou forsake the Levite, - all thy days upon thy soil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land.

Revised Standard Version
Take heed that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

THE MESSAGE
And make sure that for as long as you live on your land you never, never neglect the Levite.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Contextual Overview

⁵Soon you will cross the Jordan, and the Lord will help you conquer your enemies and let you live in peace, there in the land he has given you. But after you are settled, life will be different. You must not offer sacrifices just anywhere you want to. Instead, the Lord will choose a place somewhere in Israel where you must go to worship him. All of your sacrifices and offerings must be taken there, including sacrifices to please the Lord and any gift you promise or voluntarily give him. That's where you must also take one tenth of your grain, wine, and olive oil, as well as the first-born of your cattle, sheep, and goats. You and your family and servants will eat your gifts and sacrifices and celebrate there at the place of worship, because the Lord your God has made you successful in everything you have done. And since Levites will not have any land of their own, you must ask some of them to come along and celebrate with you. Sometimes you may want to kill an animal for food and not as a sacrifice. If the Lord has blessed you and given you enough cows or sheep or goats, then you can butcher one of them where you live. You can eat it just like the meat from a deer or gazelle that you kill when you go hunting. And even those people who are unclean and unfit for worship can have some of the meat. But you must not eat the blood of any animal—let the blood drain out on the ground. ²⁰The Lord has promised that later on he will give Israel more land, and some of you may not be able to travel all the way from your homes to the place of worship each time you are hungry for meat. But the Lord will give you cattle, sheep, and goats, and you can butcher any of those animals at home and eat as much as you want. ²² It is the same as eating the meat from a deer or a gazelle that you kill when you go hunting. And in this way, anyone who is unclean and unfit for worship can have some of the meat. ²³But don't eat the blood. It is the life of the animal, so let it drain out on the ground before you eat the meat. ²⁵ Do you want the Lord to make you successful? Do you want your children to be successful even after you are gone? Then do what pleases the Lord and don't eat blood. ²⁶All sacrifices and offerings to the Lord must be taken to the place where he chooses to be worshiped. If you offer a sacrifice to please the Lord , all of its meat must be burned on the altar. You can eat the meat from certain kinds of sacrifices, but you must always pour out the animal's blood on the altar. ²⁸ If you obey these laws, you will be doing what the Lord your God says is right and good. Then he will help you and your descendants be successful. ²⁹ Moses said: Israel, as you go into the land and attack the nations that are there, the Lord will get rid of them, and you can have their land. ³⁰ But that's when you must be especially careful not to ask, "How did those nations worship their gods? Shouldn't we worship the Lord in the same way?" ³¹ No, you should not! The Lord hates the disgusting way those nations worship their gods, because they even burn their sons and daughters as sacrifices.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Take: Deuteronomy 14:27-29, 2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 11:14, 2 Chronicles 31:4-21, Nehemiah 10:34-39, 1 Corinthians 9:10-14

as long: etc. Heb. all thy days, Deuteronomy 12:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:22 - for the priests Numbers 31:29 - an heave Deuteronomy 12:12 - the Levite Deuteronomy 12:18 - thou must Deuteronomy 18:1 - shall have Joshua 13:14 - General Isaiah 23:18 - for them Ezekiel 48:13 - five and twenty thousand in Luke 10:7 - for Galatians 6:6 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite,.... By withholding from him the tithes appointed for his maintenance; or rather by neglecting to take him with him in order to partake of the feast or entertainment before spoken of:

as long as thou livest upon the earth; so that it was not one time only, but always; whenever he ate these holy things before the Lord, as long as he lived, he was to be careful he had the Levite with him, for a reason given, Deuteronomy 12:12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 12:19. Forsake not the Levite — These had no inheritance, and were to live by the sanctuary: if therefore the offerings were withheld by which the Levites were supported, they of course must perish. Those who have devoted themselves to the service of God in ministering to the salvation of the souls of men, should certainly be furnished at least with all the necessaries of life. Those who withhold this from them sin against their own mercies, and that ordinance of God by which a ministry is established for the salvation of souls.