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Deuteronomy 18
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The Portion of the Priests and Levites

18"The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.H3548H3881H7626H3878H2506H5159H3478H398H801H3068H801H5159 2"Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them.H5159H7130H251H3068H5159H1696 3"And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.H3548H4941H5971H2076H2077H7794H7716H5414H3548H2220H3895H6896 4"The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.H7225H1715H8492H3323H7225H1488H6629H5414 5"For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.H3068H430H977H7626H5975H8334H8034H3068H1121H3117 6"So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD chooses,H3881H935H259H8179H3478H1481H935H185H5315H4725H3068H977 7"then he may serve in the name of the LORD his God as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.H8334H8034H3068H430H251H3881H5975H6440H3068 8"They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.H2506H398H4465H1

Avoid Wicked Customs

9"When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.H935H776H3068H430H5414H3925H6213H8441H1471 10"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,H4672H1121H1323H5674H784H7080H7081H6049H5172H3784 11"or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.H2266H2267H7592H178H3049H1875H4191 12"For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.H6213H8441H3068H1558H8441H3068H430H3423H6440 13"You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.H8549H3068H430 14"For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.H1471H3423H8085H6049H7080H3068H430H5414

A New Prophet Like Moses

15"The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,H3068H430H6965H5030H7130H251H8085 16"according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.'H7592H3068H430H2722H3117H6951H559H8085H3254H6963H3068H430H7200H1419H784H4191 17"And the LORD said to me: 'What they have spoken is good.H3068H559H3190H1696 18'I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.H6965H5030H7130H251H5414H1697H6310H1696H6680 19'And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.H376H8085H1697H1696H8034H1875 20'But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'H5030H2102H1696H1697H8034H6680H1696H1696H8034H312H430H5030H4191 21"And if you say in your heart, 'How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'—H559H3824H3045H1697H3068H1696 22"when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.H5030H1696H8034H3068H1697H935H1697H3068H1696H5030H1696H2087H1481


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