New English Translation

Deuteronomy 18:4-8 New English Translation (NET)

4. You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

5. For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

6. Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the Lord chooses

7. and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

8. He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.