Deuteronomy 18:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ “If a Levite leaves any of your towns, from wherever he has been residing in Israel, and comes to the place that the Lord will choose (and he may come whenever he wishes),

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel where he is a temporary resident, he may come whenever he desires to [the sanctuary] the place the Lord will choose;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

Common English Bible

⁶ Now if a Levite leaves one of your cities or departs from any location in Israel where he’s been living and, because he wants to, comes to the location the LORD selects

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ If a Levite departs from one of the cities, throughout all of Israel, in which he lives, and if he wills and desires to go to the place which the Lord will choose,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all Israel, in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the place which the Lord shall choose:

Deuteronomy 18:6 Cross References

Psalm 26:8

O Lord, I love the house in which you dwell and the place where your glory abides.

Psalm 27:4

One thing I asked of the Lord; this I seek: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 84:5

Happy are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Numbers 35:5

You shall measure, outside the town, for the east side two thousand cubits, for the south side two thousand cubits, for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, with the town in the middle; this shall belong to them as pastureland for their towns.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then you shall bring everything that I command you to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, and all your choice votive gifts that you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:14

But only at the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes—there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do everything I command you.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes as his habitation to put his name there. You shall go there,

Deuteronomy 16:2

You shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd, at the place that the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his name.

Deuteronomy 18:7

then he may minister in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord.

1 Timothy 3:1

The saying is sure: whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a noble task.

1 Peter 5:2

to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it, not for sordid gain but eagerly.