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Deuteronomy 18:4-6
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Deuteronomy 18:4-6
Contemporary English Version
4 In addition, they will receive the first part of your grain harvest and part of your first batches of wine and olive oil.[a] You must also give them the first wool that is cut from your sheep each year. 5 Give these gifts to the priests, because the Lord has chosen them and their descendants out of all the tribes of Israel to be his special servants at the place of worship.
6 Any Levite can leave his hometown, and go to the place where the Lord chooses to be worshiped,
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- 18.4 grain … olive oil: An Israelite was supposed to offer the first part of the harvest as a gift to the Lord (see Leviticus 23.10,11).
Deuteronomy 18:4-6
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Deuteronomy 18:4-6
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4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,(A) 5 for the Lord your God has chosen them(B) and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister(C) in the Lord’s name always.(D)
6 If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the Lord will choose,(E)
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