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Deuteronomy 18 |
1 |
The priests the Levites, and 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 inheritance. |
2 |
Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their
brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto
them. |
3 |
And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them
that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall
give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the
maw. |
4 |
The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine
oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give
him. |
5 |
For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes,
to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons
for ever. |
6 |
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,
where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto
the place which the LORD shall choose; |
7 |
Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as
all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the
LORD. |
8 |
They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which
cometh of the sale of his patrimony. |
9 |
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of
those nations. |
10 |
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his
son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
witch. |
11 |
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a
wizard, or a necromancer. |
12 |
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the
LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth
drive them out from before thee. |
13 |
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. |
14 |
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD
thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. |
15 |
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall
hearken; |
16 |
According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in
Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire
any more, that I die not. |
17 |
And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which
they have spoken. |
18 |
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren,
like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall
speak unto them all that I shall command him. |
19 |
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken
unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it
of him. |
20 |
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my
name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall
speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall
die. |
21 |
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word
which the LORD hath not spoken? |
22 |
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD
hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously:
thou shalt not be afraid of him. |