1 The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi,nSee Num. 18:20 shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. TheyoNum. 18:8, 9; Josh. 13:14; 1 Sam. 2:28; [1 Cor. 9:13] shall eat the Lord 's food offerings1Or the offerings by fire to the Lord as their inheritance. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. 3 And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep:pSee Lev. 7:30-34 they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. 4 qNum. 18:12; 2 Chr. 31:5 The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 5 For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribesrch. 17:12 to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.
6 And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel,sNum. 35:2, 3; Judg. 17:7; 19:1 where he lives—and he may come when he desires1Or lives—if he comes enthusiastically —tSee ch. 12:5 to the place that the Lord will choose, 7 and ministers in the name of the Lord his God,u[1 Chr. 23:6; 2 Chr. 31:2] like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, 8 then he may have equalv2 Chr. 31:4; Neh. 12:44, 47; 13:10 portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.
9 When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you,wch. 12:29-31; See Lev. 18:26-30 you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyonexSee Lev. 18:21 who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone whoy2 Kgs. 17:17 practices divination orzSee Lev. 19:26 tells fortunes or interprets omens, ora[Ex. 22:18] a sorcerer 11 or a charmer orbSee Lev. 19:31 a medium or a wizard orc[1 Sam. 28:7] a necromancer, 12 dch. 22:5; 25:16 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. AndeSee ch. 9:4 because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.
15 fJohn 1:21, 25, 45; Cited Acts 3:22; 7:37 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at HorebgSee ch. 9:10 on the day of the assembly, when you said,hSee Ex. 20:19 ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die. ’ 17 And the Lord said to me,ich. 5:28 ‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18 f[See ver. 15 above] I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers.jJer. 1:9; 5:14; [John 17:8] And I will put my words in his mouth, andk[John 4:25; 8:28; 12:49, 50] he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 l[Acts 3:23] And whoever willmJer. 29:19; 35:13 not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 nSee ch. 13:5 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or1Or and who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. ’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken? ’ — 22 o[ch. 13:1-3; Jer. 28:9] when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken;n[See ver. 20 above] the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.