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1 The
priests and the
Levites—all the
tribe of Levi—shall
have no portion
nor inheritance
with Israel. They
shall eat the
offerings of the
LORD made by fire
and his portion.
2 They
shall have no
inheritance among
their brothers. The
LORD is their
inheritance, as he
has spoken to
them.
3 This
shall be the
priests’ due from
the people, from
those who offer
a sacrifice, whether
it be ox
or sheep, that
they shall give
to the priest:
the shoulder, the
two cheeks, and
the inner parts.
4 You
shall give him
the first fruits
of your grain,
of your new
wine, and of
your oil, and
the first of
the fleece of
your sheep.
5 For
the LORD your
God has chosen him
out of all
your tribes to
stand to minister
in the LORD’s
name, him and
his sons forever.
6 If
a Levite comes
from any of
your gates out
of all Israel
where he lives,
and comes with all
the desire of
his soul to
the place which
the LORD
shall choose,
7 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.
8 They
shall have like
portions to eat,
in addition to
that which comes from
the sale of
his family possessions.
9 When
you have come into
the land which the
LORD your God
gives you, you
shall not learn
to imitate the
abominations of
those nations.
10 There
shall not be
found with
you anyone who makes
his son or
his daughter to
pass through
the fire, one who
uses divination,
one who tells fortunes,
or an enchanter,
or a sorcerer,
11 or
a charmer, or
someone who
consults with
a familiar spirit, or
a wizard, or
a necromancer.
12 For
whoever does these
things is an
abomination to the
LORD. Because of
these abominations,
the LORD your
God drives them
out from before
you.
13 You
shall be blameless
with the LORD
your God.
14 For
these nations that
you shall
dispossess listen
to those who
practice sorcery and
to diviners; but
as for you,
the LORD your
God has not
allowed you so
to do.
15 The
LORD your God
will raise up
to you a
prophet from among
you, of
your brothers, like
me. You shall
listen to him.
16 This
is according to
all that you
desired of the
LORD your God
in Horeb in
the day of
the assembly,
saying, “Let me
not hear again
the LORD my
God’s voice,
neither let me
see this great fire
any more, that
I not die.”
17 The
LORD said to
me, “They have
well said that
which they have
spoken.
18 I
will raise them
up a prophet
from among
their brothers, like
you. I will
put my words
in his mouth,
and he shall
speak to them
all that I
shall command him.
19 It
shall happen,
that whoever will
not listen to
my words which
he shall speak
in my name,
I will require
it of him.
20 But
the prophet who
speaks a word
presumptuously in
my name, which
I have not
commanded him to
speak, or who
speaks in the
name of other gods,
that same prophet
shall die.”
21 You
may say in
your heart, “How
shall we know
the word which
the LORD has
not spoken?”
22 When
a prophet speaks
in the LORD’s
name, if the
thing doesn’t follow,
nor happen, that
is the thing
which the LORD
has not spoken.
The prophet has
spoken it
presumptuously. You
shall not be
afraid of him.