Quotes about Service
The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.
— Numbers 18:23
Therefore say to the Levites, ‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.
— Numbers 18:30
“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”
— Numbers 26:2
Then the LORD said to Moses,
— Numbers 28:1
So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
— Deuteronomy 11:13
and be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.
— Deuteronomy 12:19
You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
— Deuteronomy 13:4
Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
— Deuteronomy 15:18
For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
— Deuteronomy 18:5
then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
— Deuteronomy 18:7
And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.
— Deuteronomy 21:5
to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”
— Deuteronomy 26:3