Deuteronomy 18
18The Levitical priests—that's the entire tribe of Levi—don't get any land-inheritance with the rest of Israel. They get the Fire-Gift-Offerings of GOD—they will live on that inheritance.H3548H3881H7626H3878H2506H5159H3478H398H801H3068H801H51592But they don't get land-inheritance like the rest of their kinsmen. GOD is their inheritance.H5159H7130H251H3068H5159H16963This is what the priests get from the people from any offering of an ox or a sheep: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.H3548H4941H5971H2076H2077H7794H7716H5414H3548H2220H3895H68964You must also give them the firstfruits of your grain, wine, and oil and the first fleece of your sheep,H7225H1715H8492H3323H7225H1488H6629H54145because GOD, your God, has chosen only them and their children out of all your tribes to be present and serve always in the name of GOD, your God.H3068H430H977H7626H5975H8334H8034H3068H1121H31176If a Levite moves from any town in Israel—and he is quite free to move wherever he desires—and comes to the place GOD designates for worship,H3881H935H259H8179H3478H1481H935H185H5315H4725H3068H9777he may serve there in the name of GOD along with all his brother Levites who are present and serving in the Presence of GOD.H8334H8034H3068H430H251H3881H5975H6440H30688And he will get an equal share to eat, even though he has money from the sale of his parents' possessions.H2506H398H4465H19When you enter the land that GOD, your God, is giving you, don't take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there.H935H776H3068H430H5414H3925H6213H8441H147110Don't you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don't practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery,H4672H1121H1323H5674H784H7080H7081H6049H5172H378411casting spells, holding s?nces, or channeling with the dead.H2266H2267H7592H178H3049H1875H419112People who do these things are an abomination to GOD. It's because of just such abominable practices that GOD, your God, is driving these nations out before you.H6213H8441H3068H1558H8441H3068H430H3423H644013Be completely loyal to GOD, your God.H8549H3068H43014These nations that you're about to run out of the country consort with sorcerers and witches. But not you. GOD, your God, forbids it.H1471H3423H8085H6049H7080H3068H430H541415GOD, your God, is going to raise up a prophet for you. GOD will raise him up from among your kinsmen, a prophet like me. Listen obediently to him.H3068H430H6965H5030H7130H251H808516This is what you asked GOD, your God, for at Horeb on the day you were all gathered at the mountain and said, "We can't hear any more from GOD, our God; we can't stand seeing any more fire. We'll die!"H7592H3068H430H2722H3117H6951H559H8085H3254H6963H3068H430H7200H1419H784H419117And GOD said to me, "They're right; they've spoken the truth.H3068H559H3190H169618I'll raise up for them a prophet like you from their kinsmen. I'll tell him what to say and he will pass on to them everything I command him.H6965H5030H7130H251H5414H1697H6310H1696H668019And anyone who won't listen to my words spoken by him, I will personally hold responsible.H376H8085H1697H1696H8034H187520"But any prophet who fakes it, who claims to speak in my name something I haven't commanded him to say, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die."H5030H2102H1696H1697H8034H6680H1696H1696H8034H312H430H5030H419121You may be wondering among yourselves, "How can we tell the difference, whether it was GOD who spoke or not?" Here's how:H559H3824H3045H1697H3068H169622If what the prophet spoke in GOD's name doesn't happen, then obviously GOD wasn't behind it; the prophet made it up. Forget about him.H5030H1696H8034H3068H1697H935H1697H3068H1696H5030H1696H2087H1481
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