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New King James Version

Deuteronomy 12:19

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Liberality;   Tithes;   Thompson Chain Reference - Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;   Tithe;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Levites;   Tithe;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tithes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Collection;   Israel;   Levite;   Psalms, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Priests and Levites;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High places;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Husbandry;   Levites;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Law in the Old Testament;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Blood;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Levites (Temple Servants);  

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 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

5 "But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. 6 There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 8 "You shall not at all do as we are doing here today--every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes-- 9 for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you. 10 But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety, 11 then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD. 12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 14 but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

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.


 
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