Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

你要谨慎，在你所住的地方永不可丢弃利未人。

你要谨慎，在你所住的地上，你永不可离弃利未人。

你要谨慎，在你所住的地上，你永不可离弃利未人。

切记，只要你们还住在自己的土地上，就不可忘记利未人。

你要自己谨慎，你在你那地上的日子，永不可丢弃利未人。

你要謹慎，在你所住的地方永不可丟棄利未人。

你要謹慎，在你所住的地上，你永不可離棄利未人。

你要謹慎，在你所住的地上，你永不可離棄利未人。

切記，只要你們還住在自己的土地上，就不可忘記利未人。

你要自己謹慎，你在你那地上的日子，永不可丟棄利未人。

你要謹慎，儘你在你土地的日子、你總不可丟棄利未人。

爾其慎之、居於斯土、畢生勿遺利未人、○

爾居斯土、至於畢生、必當謹恪、勿遺利未人。

爾居於爾地、當終身謹慎、毋遺忘利未人、○

Don’t forget to take care of the Levites as long as you live in your land.

Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

And be very careful never to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

and be careful not to neglect the Levite, as long as you live in your land.

Be careful that you do not abandon the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.

and be careful not to neglect the Levite, as long as you live in your land.

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.

Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him.The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord

“ We— the priests, the Levites and the people— have cast lots to determine when each of our families is to bring to the house of our God at set times each year a contribution of wood to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Law.“ We also assume responsibility for bringing to the house of the Lord each year the firstfruits of our crops and of every fruit tree.“ As it is also written in the Law, we will bring the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our God, to the priests ministering there.“ Moreover, we will bring to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the priests, the first of our ground meal, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees and of our new wine and olive oil. And we will bring a tithe of our crops to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.A priest descended from Aaron is to accompany the Levites when they receive the tithes, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of the tithes up to the house of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.The people of Israel, including the Levites, are to bring their contributions of grain, new wine and olive oil to the storerooms, where the articles for the sanctuary and for the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the musicians are also kept.“ We will not neglect the house of our God.”

Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion due the priests and Levites so they could devote themselves to the Law of the Lord.As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously gave the firstfruits of their grain, new wine, olive oil and honey and all that the fields produced. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything.The people of Israel and Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things dedicated to the Lord their God, and they piled them in heaps.They began doing this in the third month and finished in the seventh month.When Hezekiah and his officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and blessed his people Israel.Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps;and Azariah the chief priest, from the family of Zadok, answered,“ Since the people began to bring their contributions to the temple of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, because the Lord has blessed his people, and this great amount is left over.”Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the Lord, and this was done.Then they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes and dedicated gifts. Konaniah, a Levite, was the overseer in charge of these things, and his brother Shimei was next in rank.Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah were assistants of Konaniah and Shimei his brother. All these served by appointment of King Hezekiah and Azariah the official in charge of the temple of God.Kore son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the East Gate, was in charge of the freewill offerings given to God, distributing the contributions made to the Lord and also the consecrated gifts.Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shekaniah assisted him faithfully in the towns of the priests, distributing to their fellow priests according to their divisions, old and young alike.In addition, they distributed to the males three years old or more whose names were in the genealogical records— all who would enter the temple of the Lord to perform the daily duties of their various tasks, according to their responsibilities and their divisions.And they distributed to the priests enrolled by their families in the genealogical records and likewise to the Levites twenty years old or more, according to their responsibilities and their divisions.They included all the little ones, the wives, and the sons and daughters of the whole community listed in these genealogical records. For they were faithful in consecrating themselves.As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farm lands around their towns or in any other towns, men were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among them and to all who were recorded in the genealogies of the Levites.This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.

And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns,so that the Levites( who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.