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"The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall not have a portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the LORD'S offerings by fire and His property.

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.

"They shall not have an inheritance among their countrymen; the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

"Now this shall be the priests' portion from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep: they shall give the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.

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.

"You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep.

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.

"For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand to serve in the name of the LORD always.

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.

"Now if a Levite comes from any of your towns throughout Israel where he resides, and he comes whenever he desires to the place which the LORD chooses,

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;

then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

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 .

"They shall eat equal portions, except for what they receive from the sale of their fathers' estates.

They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

"When you enter the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations.

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.

"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, a soothsayer, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

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.

or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead.

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

"For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is going to drive them out before you.

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.

"You are to be blameless before the LORD your God.

Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

"For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.

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.

"The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen; to him you shall listen.

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;

"This is in accordance with everything that you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, 'Do not let me hear the voice of the LORD my God again, and do not let me see this great fire anymore, or I will die!'

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.

"And the LORD said to me, 'They have spoken well.

And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

'I will raise up for them a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them everything that I command him.

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.

'And it shall come about that whoever does not listen to My words which he speaks in My name, I Myself will require it of him.

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.

'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name, a word which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.'

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.

"And if you say in your heart, 'How will we recognize the word which the LORD has not spoken?'

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

"When the prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, and the thing does not happen or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you are not to be afraid of him.

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.