The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
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The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
And the Levite who within your gates, do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.
and the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.
And the Leuite that is within thy gates, shalt thou not forsake: for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee.
And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.
As to the Levite who `is' within thy gates, thou dost not forsake him, for he hath no portion and inheritance with thee.
As for the Levite who [is] within your gates, you do not forsake him, for he has no portion and inheritance with you.
The Levite who is within your gates—do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
And the Levite who within your gates, do not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that is within thy gates; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.
You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
Don't forget to take care of the Levites in your town, because they don't have any share in the allotment of land.
And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.
And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְהַלֵּוִ֥י אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תַֽעַזְבֶ֑נּוּ כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין ל֛וֹ חֵ֥לֶק וְנַחֲלָ֖ה עִמָּֽךְ
The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ λευίτης ὁ ἐν ὁ πόλις σύ ὅτι οὐ εἰμί αὐτός μερίς οὐδέ κλῆρος μετά σύ
and the Levite that is in your cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with you.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְלֵוָאָה דִי בְקִרְוָיךְ לָא תִשְׁבְּקִנֵהּ אֲרֵי לֵית לֵהּ חֳלָק וְאַחֲסָנָא עִמָךְ
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְלֵיוָאָה דִבְקִרְוֵיכוֹן לָא תִשְׁבְּקוּנֵיהּ אֲרוּם לֵית לֵיהּ חוֹלַק וְאַחְסָנָא עִמְכוֹן
And the Levite who is in your cities forsake not, for he hath not a portion or a heritage with you.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chêleq (“portion”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 14:27 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.
Ibn Ezra
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra
Ibn Ezra on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0); and “Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.