大卫吩咐利未人的族长，派他们的弟兄作歌手，唱欢乐的歌曲，并用琴、瑟、钹这些乐器伴奏。

David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers to sing joyful songs, accompanied by musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.

youdao

你们要给利未人的城，共有四十八座，连城带郊野都要给他们。

In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands.

youdao

你们要给利未人的城，共有四十八座，连城带郊野都要给他们。

So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

youdao

So many of them would have gone up to Jerusalem and a real tension is going to develop between the Jerusalem priests and this class of Levites who are newcomers; and we'll see some of that tension played out in some other texts.

他们中的许多人将去耶路撒冷，一次真正的紧张状态,将在耶路撒冷的牧师和这些新来的利未人,中逐渐发展起来;我们将会在其它的经文中,看到一些这种紧张状态。

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As a result you have a lot of rural Levites who are out of business now, a lot of people who would have officiated at local shrines, and they're out of business: that probably explains the fact that Deuteronomy makes special provision for the Levites and includes them in its... in legislation, sort of social welfare legislation.

因此许多乡下的利未人丢掉了生计，许多在当地主持地方祭祀的人，也丢掉了生计：这也许解释了为什么,申命记中特别为利未人提供了给养,并把它写进了它的立法中，某种社会福利立法。

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