Deuteronomy 12:19

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

¹⁸ But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all your undertakings. ¹⁹ Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. ²⁰ “When the Lord your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire.

As Long as You Live

Be Careful

Do Not Forsake

Take Heed

As You Live

Forsake Not

Not Give Up

Levi

Levites

Deuteronomy 14:27-29

Also you shall not neglect the Levite who is in your town, for he has no portion or inheritance among you.

2 Chronicles 11:13-14

Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him from all their districts.

2 Chronicles 31:4-21

Also he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might devote themselves to the law of the Lord.

Nehemiah 10:34-39

Likewise we cast lots for the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites and the people so that they might bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers’ households, at fixed times annually, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law;

1 Corinthians 9:10-14

Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.