Deuteronomy 18

1 “There will not be for the priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—a portion and inheritance with Israel. They will eat fire-offerings of YHWH, even His inheritance, 2 and he will have no inheritance in the middle of his brothers. YHWH Himself is his inheritance, as He had spoken to him. 3 And this will be the priest’s right from the people, from those sacrificing a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep, he will even give to the priest the leg, and the two cheeks, and the stomach. 4 You will give to him the first of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your flock. 5 For your God YHWH has fixed on him, out of all your tribes, to stand to serve in the name of YHWH—him and his sons continually. 6 And when the Levite comes from one of your cities, out of all Israel where he has sojourned, and has come with all the desire of his soul to the place which YHWH chose, 7 then he will minister in the name of his God YHWH like all his brothers, the Levites, who were standing there before YHWH. 8 They will eat portion like portion, apart from his sold things from the fathers. 9 When you are coming into the land which your God YHWH has given to you, you will not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations. 10 There will not be found in you one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer, 11 and a charmer, and one inquiring from a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking to the dead. 12 For everyone doing these will be an abomination to YHWH, and because of these abominations your God YHWH will dispossess them from your presence. 13 You must be perfect with your God YHWH, 14 for these nations whom you are possessing listen to observers of clouds and to diviners. But you—your God YHWH has not permitted you so. 15 Your God YHWH will raise up for you a Prophet like me out of your middle, out of your brothers—you must listen to Him, 16 according to all that you asked from your God YHWH in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Do not let me continue to hear the voice of my God YHWH, and do not let me see this great fire anymore, and I will not die. 17 And YHWH said to me, They have done well in what they have spoken. 18 I will raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the middle of their brothers, and I will give My words in His mouth, and He will speak to them all that which I command Him. 19 And it will be that the man who does not listen to My words which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. 20 Only, the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, and who speaks in the name of other gods, indeed, that prophet will die. 21 And when you say in your heart, How do we know the word which YHWH has not spoken? 22 That which the prophet speaks in the name of YHWH, and the thing was not, and did not come—it will be the word which YHWH had not spoken. The prophet spoke it in presumption. You will not be afraid of him.”


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