8He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.


In Context

5 for the Lord your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the Lord 's name always.

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,

7 he may minister in the name of the Lord his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the Lord .

8 He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.

9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,

Deuteronomy 18:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:8They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:8He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do: besides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his fathers.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:8They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:8they shall have like portions to eat, besides that which he hath sold of his patrimony.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:8They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:8They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:8They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:8portion as portion they do eat, apart from his sold things, with the fathers.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:8They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.