Deuteronomy 18:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ “For יהוה  your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of יהוה, him and his sons forever.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name [and presence] of the Lord, him and his sons forever.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons for ever.

Common English Bible

⁵ because the LORD your God selected Levi from all of your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD’s name—both him and his descendants for all time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For the Lord your God himself has chosen him out of all your tribes, so that he may stand and minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons, forever.

Deuteronomy 18:5 Cross References

Exodus 29:9

and shall gird them with girdles – Aharon and his sons – and put the turbans on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting law. So you shall ordain Aharon and his sons.

Numbers 16:5

and spoke to Qoraḥ

Numbers 25:13

and it shall be to him and to his seed after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was ardent for his Elohim, and made atonement for the children of Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 3:10

“And appoint Aharon and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

Deuteronomy 10:8

At that time יהוה  separated the tribe of Lĕ

Deuteronomy 17:12

“And the man who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the priest who stands to serve there before יהוה  your Elohim, or to the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ĕ