Deuteronomy 18:8
Good News Translation
He is to receive the same amount of food as the other priests, and he may keep whatever his family sends him.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall have equal portions to eat, even though they have income from the sale of family possessions.

Contemporary English Version
Some Levites may have money from selling family possessions, and others may not. But all Levites serving at the place of worship will receive the same amount of food from the sacrifices and gifts brought by the people.

New American Bible
he shall receive the same portions to eat, along with his stipends and patrimony.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He 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.

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Leviticus 7:8,9,14 The priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the skin thereof. . . .

Nehemiah 12:44,47 And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. . . .

Luke 10:7 And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.

1 Corinthians 9:7-14 Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock? . . .

1 Timothy 5:17,18 Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. . . .

Context
Provision for Priests and Levites
7He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord. 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.
Cross References
Leviticus 27:30
All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him.

Numbers 18:21
And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant:

Deuteronomy 18:7
He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord.

2 Chronicles 31:4
He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to the priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to the law of the Lord.

Nehemiah 12:44
And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

Deuteronomy 18:7
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