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Deuteronomy 18
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- 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.
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