And I knew that the parts of the deacons [or Levites] were not given to them, and that each man of the deacons and of the singers, and of them that ministered in the temple, had gone away into his country;
There ye shall eat before your Lord God, ye, and your sons, and daughters, your menservants, and womenservants, and the deacons [or Levites], that dwell in your cities; for they have none other part and possession among you.