Deuteronomium 18:6

Nova Vulgata

Si exierit Levites de una urbium tuarum ex omni Israel, in qua ut advena habitat, et voluerit venire desiderans locum, quem elegerit Dominus,

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ego dedi vobis fratres vestros Levitas de medio filiorum Isra�l, et tradidi donum Domino, ut serviant in ministeriis tabernaculi ejus.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Si exierit Levites ex una urbium tuarum ex omni Isra�l in qua habitat, et voluerit venire, desiderans locum quem elegerit Dominus,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

come: Numbers 35:2, Numbers 35:3

and come with: Psalms 26:8, Psalms 27:4, Psalms 63:1, Psalms 63:2, Psalms 84:5, Psalms 84:10, 1 Timothy 3:1, 1 Peter 5:2

unto the place: Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 16:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:11 - a place Deuteronomy 12:12 - the Levite 1 Samuel 23:20 - all the desire

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of Israel, where he sojourned,.... In any of the cities through the land, for they were dispersed all over the country, and employed in instructing and teaching the people; and, excepting the cities which were given them to dwell in out of the various tribes, they were but sojourners:

and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose; the city of Jerusalem, where the temple would be built, and sacrifices offered, at which the Levites were assisting to the priests, and in various parts of the service of the sanctuary; and to which they are supposed to come with an hearty good will, with great eagerness of soul, and a vehement desire of being employed in the work of the Lord. Though Jarchi interprets it of a priest, that comes and offers his freewill offerings, or what he is obliged to, and even in a ward not his own; or, as otherwise expressed, of the priests that come to the feast, who offer in the ward, and serve in the offerings that come by virtue of the feast, as the additions of the feast, though it is not in their own ward; and indeed every priest was a Levite, though every Levite was not a priest; and the description of him after given, as standing ministering in the name of the Lord, best agrees with a priest.

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.