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Deuteronomy 18:6
Deuteronomy 18:6 is verse 6 of Deuteronomy chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
King James Version
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
World English Bible
If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
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Deuteronomy 18:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
5 For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
6 Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
7 then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
8 They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 35:2“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities.
Numbers 35:3The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
Psalms 26:8O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
Psalms 63:1O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
Psalms 63:2So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
Psalms 84:5Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
Psalms 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
1 Timothy 3:1This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
1 Peter 5:2Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
Deuteronomy 12:5Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
Deuteronomy 16:2You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.