18The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no allotment or inheritance within Israel. They may eat the sacrifices that are the LORD's portionH3548H3881H7626H3878H2506H5159H3478H398H801H3068H801H51592but they shall have no inheritance among the other members of the community; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.H5159H7130H251H3068H5159H16963This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two jowls, and the stomach.H3548H4941H5971H2076H2077H7794H7716H5414H3548H2220H3895H68964The first fruits of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.H7225H1715H8492H3323H7225H1488H6629H54145For the LORD your God has chosen Levi out of all your tribes, to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time.H3068H430H977H7626H5975H8334H8034H3068H1121H31176If a Levite leaves any of your towns, from wherever he has been residing in Israel, and comes to the place that the LORD will choose (and he may come whenever he wishes),H3881H935H259H8179H3478H1481H935H185H5315H4725H3068H9777then he may minister in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD.H8334H8034H3068H430H251H3881H5975H6440H30688They shall have equal portions to eat, even though they have income from the sale of family possessions.H2506H398H4465H19When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.H935H776H3068H430H5414H3925H6213H8441H147110No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,H4672H1121H1323H5674H784H7080H7081H6049H5172H378411or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.H2266H2267H7592H178H3049H1875H419112For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD; it is because of such abhorrent practices that the LORD your God is driving them out before you.H6213H8441H3068H1558H8441H3068H430H3423H644013You must remain completely loyal to the LORD your God.H8549H3068H43014Although these nations that you are about to dispossess do give heed to soothsayers and diviners, as for you, the LORD your God does not permit you to do so.H1471H3423H8085H6049H7080H3068H430H541415The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.H3068H430H6965H5030H7130H251H808516This is what you requested of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: "If I hear the voice of the LORD my God any more, or ever again see this great fire, I will die."H7592H3068H430H2722H3117H6951H559H8085H3254H6963H3068H430H7200H1419H784H419117Then the LORD replied to me: "They are right in what they have said.H3068H559H3190H169618I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.H6965H5030H7130H251H5414H1697H6310H1696H668019Anyone who does not heed the words that the prophet shall speak in my name, I myself will hold accountable.H376H8085H1697H1696H8034H187520But any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, or who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak—that prophet shall die."H5030H2102H1696H1697H8034H6680H1696H1696H8034H312H430H5030H419121You may say to yourself, "How can we recognize a word that the LORD has not spoken?"H559H3824H3045H1697H3068H169622If a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD but the thing does not take place or prove true, it is a word that the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; do not be frightened by it.H5030H1696H8034H3068H1697H935H1697H3068H1696H5030H1696H2087H1481