1 The priests the Levites, even all the tribe of Levi, shall
have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 They shall have no inheritance
among their brothers: Yahweh 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, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 The first fruits of your
grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your
sheep, shall you give him. 5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all
your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for
ever. 6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where
he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which
Yahweh shall choose; 7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his
God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the
sale of his patrimony. 9 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your
God gives you, you shall not learn to do after 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
practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 11 or a charmer, or a
consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For
whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these
abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you. 13 You
shall be perfect with Yahweh your God. 14 For these nations, that you
shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but
as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do. 15 Yahweh your
God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers,
like me; to him you shall listen; 16 according to all that you
desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let
me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great
fire any more, that I not die. 17 Yahweh 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; and 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 shall speak a word
presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who
shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. 21 If
you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not
spoken? 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing
doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken:
the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
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