18 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.
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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.