Deuteronomy 18:5

18:5 For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

Deuteronomy 18:7

18:7 and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

tc Smr and some Greek texts add “before the Lord your God” to bring the language into line with a formula found elsewhere (Deut 10:8; 2 Chr 29:11). This reading is not likely to be original, however.

tn Heb “the name of the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.