then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
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then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.
then he shall serve in the name of Yahweh his God as all his brothers, the Levites, who stand there to the face of Yahweh.
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then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.
then he shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before Jehovah.
then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.
He shall then minister in the Name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Leuites, which remaine there before the Lord.
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.
then he hath ministered in the name of Jehovah his God, like all his brethren, the Levites, who are standing there before Jehovah,
then he has ministered in the Name of his God YHWH like all his brothers, the Levites, who are standing there before YHWH.
then he must serve in the name of Yahweh his God as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
then he shall serve in the name of Yahweh his God as all his brothers, the Levites, who stand there to the face of Yahweh.
and shall serve in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites that stand there before Jehovah,
then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.
Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.
then he shall be allowed to serve in the name of the Lord his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there in service before the Lord.
Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.
then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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וְשֵׁרֵ֕ת בְּשֵׁ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֑יו כְּכָל אֶחָיו֙ הַלְוִיִּ֔ם הָעֹמְדִ֥ים שָׁ֖ם לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה
then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί λειτουργέω ὁ ὄνομα κύριος ὁ θεός αὐτός ὥσπερ πᾶς ὁ ἀδελφός αὐτός ὁ λευίτης ὁ παραἵστημι ἐκεῖ ἔναντι κύριος
he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord your God.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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 →
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וִישַׁמַשׁ בִּשְׁמָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהֵהּ כְּכָל אֲחוֹהִי לֵוָאֵי דִמְשַׁמְשִׁין תַּמָן (בִּצְלוֹ) קֳדָם יְיָ
(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.
וִישַׁמֵּשׁ בְּשׁוּם מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהֵיהּ הֵי כְּכָל אָחוֹי לֵיוָאֵי דִמְשַׁמְשִׁין תַּמָּן קֳדָם יְיָ
then he shall minister in the Name of the Lord his God as all his brethren the Levites who minister there before the Lord.
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 shârath (“to minister”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 18:7 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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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.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.