Deuteronomy 12:19

THE MESSAGE

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

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.

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

Contextual Overview

⁵Instead find the site that God , your God, will choose and mark it with his name as a common center for all the tribes of Israel. Assemble there. Bring to that place your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and Tribute-Offerings, your Vow-Offerings, your Freewill-Offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. Feast there in the Presence of God , your God. Celebrate everything that you and your families have accomplished under the blessing of God , your God. ⁸Don't continue doing things the way we're doing them at present, each of us doing as we wish. Until now you haven't arrived at the goal, the resting place, the inheritance that God , your God, is giving you. But the minute you cross the Jordan River and settle into the land God , your God, is enabling you to inherit, he'll give you rest from all your surrounding enemies. You'll be able to settle down and live in safety. ¹¹From then on, at the place that God , your God, chooses to mark with his name as the place where you can meet him, bring everything that I command you: your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, tithes and Tribute-Offerings, and the best of your Vow-Offerings that you vow to God . Celebrate there in the Presence of God , your God, you and your sons and daughters, your servants and maids, including the Levite living in your neighborhood because he has no place of his own in your inheritance. ¹³Be extra careful: Don't offer your Absolution-Offerings just any place that strikes your fancy. Offer your Absolution-Offerings only in the place that God chooses in one of your tribal regions. There and only there are you to bring all that I command you. ¹⁵ It's permissible to slaughter your nonsacrificial animals like gazelle and deer in your towns and eat all you want from them with the blessing of God , your God. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat. ¹⁶But you may not eat the blood. Pour the blood out on the ground like water. Nor may you eat there the tithe of your grain, new wine, or olive oil; nor the firstborn of your herds and flocks; nor any of the Vow-Offerings that you vow; nor your Freewill-Offerings and Tribute-Offerings. All these you must eat in the Presence of God , your God, in the place God , your God, chooses—you, your son and daughter, your servant and maid, and the Levite who lives in your neighborhood. You are to celebrate in the Presence of God , your God, all the things you've been able to accomplish. ¹⁹ And make sure that for as long as you live on your land you never, never neglect the Levite. ²⁰When God , your God, expands your territory as he promised he would do, and you say, "I'm hungry for meat," because you happen to be craving meat at the time, go ahead and eat as much meat as you want. If you're too far away from the place that God , your God, has marked with his name, it's all right to slaughter animals from your herds and flocks that God has given you, as I've commanded you. In your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want. Just as the nonsacrificial animals like the gazelle and deer are eaten, you may eat them; the ritually unclean and clean may eat them at the same table. ²³Only this: Absolutely no blood. Don't eat the blood. Blood is life; don't eat the life with the meat. Don't eat it; pour it out on the ground like water. Don't eat it; then you'll have a good life, you and your children after you. By all means, do the right thing in God 's eyes. ²⁶And this: Lift high your Holy-Offerings and your Vow-Offerings and bring them to the place God designates. Sacrifice your Absolution-Offerings, the meat and blood, on the Altar of God , your God; pour out the blood of the Absolution-Offering on the Altar of God , your God; then you can go ahead and eat the meat.

Bible Verse Review
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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.