For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the Lord,

利未人撇下他们的郊野和产业，来到犹大与耶路撒冷，是因耶罗波安和他的儿子拒绝他们，不许他们供祭司职分侍奉耶和华。

利未人放弃他们的郊野和产业，来到犹大与耶路撒冷，因为耶罗波安和他的儿子拒绝他们，不许他们担任祭司事奉耶和华。

利未人放弃他们的郊野和产业，来到犹大与耶路撒冷，因为耶罗波安和他的儿子拒绝他们，不许他们担任祭司事奉耶和华。

利未人撇下他们的草场和产业，来到犹大和耶路撒冷，因为耶罗波安和他的众子不准他们做祭司事奉耶和华。

利未人放弃了他们的草场和产业，来到犹大和耶路撒冷，是因为耶罗波安和他的儿子排斥他们，不准他们作祭司事奉耶和华。

利未人撇下他們的郊野和產業，來到猶大與耶路撒冷，是因耶羅波安和他的兒子拒絕他們，不許他們供祭司職分事奉耶和華。

利未人放棄他們的郊野和產業，來到猶大與耶路撒冷，因為耶羅波安和他的兒子拒絕他們，不許他們擔任祭司事奉耶和華。

利未人放棄他們的郊野和產業，來到猶大與耶路撒冷，因為耶羅波安和他的兒子拒絕他們，不許他們擔任祭司事奉耶和華。

利未人撇下他們的草場和產業，來到猶大和耶路撒冷，因為耶羅波安和他的眾子不准他們做祭司事奉耶和華。

利未人放棄了他們的草場和產業，來到猶大和耶路撒冷，是因為耶羅波安和他的兒子排斥他們，不准他們作祭司事奉耶和華。

利未人撇下了他們郊野的牧場和產業，來到猶大和耶路撒冷，是因為耶羅波安和他兒子們屏絕了他們，不許他們當祭司來事奉永恆主；

利未人離其鄉里產業、至猶大及耶路撒冷、因耶羅波安與其眾子逐之、不容其供祭司職、奉事耶和華、

利未人、見絕於耶羅破暗及其子、不許為祭司、奉事耶和華、故離其邑郊、舍其田里、至耶路撒冷及猶大地。

利未人離其邑郊產業、至猶大地及耶路撒冷、蓋耶羅波安及其子絕之、不容盡祭司之職、以奉事主、

The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord

The Levites even left their grasslands and other property behind. They came to Judah and Jerusalem. That’s because Jeroboam and his sons had refused to accept them as priests of the Lord.

The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and moved to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons would not allow them to serve the Lord as priests.

for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of the LORD.

For the Levites left their pasture lands and their property and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had excluded them from serving as priests to the Lord.

For the Levites left their common-lands and their possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to the Lord.

For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office unto Jehovah;

for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of Yahweh.

For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the LORD:

The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the LORD’s priests.

For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh.

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are not gods.

“ Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.And you shall measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.

So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people,“ You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings.

And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim.They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands,Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands,and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites.To the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands;and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands;out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands,Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands;and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.To the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands,and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands;and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands.

“ To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.”And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites,‘ When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.So you shall also present a contribution to the Lord from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the Lord’s contribution to Aaron the priest.

“ Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord.One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.

As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,Kibzaim with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands— four cities;and out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands,Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands— four cities;and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands— two cities.The cities of the clans of the rest of the Kohathites were ten in all with their pasturelands.And to the Gershonites, one of the clans of the Levites, were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands— two cities;and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,Jarmuth with its pasturelands, En-gannim with its pasturelands— four cities;and out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands,Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands— four cities;and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands— three cities.The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.And to the rest of the Levites, the Merarite clans, were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands— four cities;and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands,Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands— four cities;and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,Heshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands— four cities in all.As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So it was with all these cities.

After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.