Deuteronomy Chapter 18

Deuteronomy Chapter 18
1 The priests of the Levites, and all the
tribe of Levi shall have no part nor
inheritance with Israel, but shall eat the
offerings of the Lord made by fire, and
his inheritance.
2 Therefore shall they have no
inheritance among their brethren: for the
Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said
unto them.
3 And this shall be the priest’s duty of
the people, that they, which offer
sacrifice, whether it be bullock or
sheep, shall give unto the priest the
shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the
maw.
4 The first fruits 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 and minister
in the name of the Lord, him, and his
sons forever.
6 Also when a Levite shall come out of
any of thy cities of all Israel, where he
remained, and come with all the desire
of his heart unto the place, which the
Lord shall choose,
7 He shall then minister in the name of
the Lord his God, as all his brethren the
Levites, which remain there before the
Lord.
8 They shall have like portions to eat
beside that which cometh of his sale of
his patrimony.
9 When thou shalt come into the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou
shalt not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations. 10 Let
none be found among you that maketh his
son or his daughter to go through the fire,
or that useth witchcraft, or a regarder of
times, or a marker of the flying of fowls,
or a sorcerer,
11 Or a charmer, or that counseleth with
spirits, or a soothsayer, or that asketh
counsel at the dead.
12 For all that do such things are
abomination unto the Lord, and because
of these abominations the Lord thy God
doth cast them out before thee. 13 Thou
shalt be upright therefore with the Lord
thy God.
14 For these nations which thou shalt
possess, hearken unto those that regard
the times, and unto sorcerers: as for thee,
the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee
so.
15 The Lord thy God will raise up unto
thee a prophet like unto me, from among
you, even of thy brethren: unto him ye
shall hearken, 16 According to all that
thou desirest of the Lord thy God in
Horeb, in the day of the assembly, when
thou saidest, Let me hear the voice of my
Lord God no more, nor see this great fire
any more, that I die not.
17 And the Lord said unto me, They
have well 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 whosoever will not hearken unto
my words, which he shall speak in my
name, I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet that shall presume to
speak a word in my name, which I have
not commanded him to speak, or that
speaketh in the name of other gods, even
the same prophet shall die.
21 And if thou think 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 therefore be afraid of him.