THEOSISDeuteronomy 14:27Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.
וְהַלֵּוִ֥י אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׁעָרֶ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תֽ͏ַעַזְבֶ֑נּוּ כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין ל֛וֹ חֵ֥לֶק וְנַחֲלָ֖ה עִמָּֽךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 18:20And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.
- Deut 14:29And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.
- Deut 12:12There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession among you.
- Deut 18:1The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations,
- Deut 18:2And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to them.
- Deut 12:18But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.
- Deut 12:19Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land.
- Gal 6:6And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.