1“The priests, the Lĕwites, all the tribe of Lĕwi, have no part nor inheritance with Yisra’ĕl. They are to eat the offerings of יהוה made by fire, and His inheritance.

2“But among his brothers Lĕwi has no inheritance. יהוה is his inheritance, as He has spoken to him.

3“And this is the priest’s right from the people, from those who bring an offering, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the stomach;

4the first-fruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you give to him.

5“For יהוה your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of יהוה, him and his sons forever.

6“And when the Lĕwite comes from one of your gates, from where he has sojourned among all Yisra’ĕl, and shall come with all the desire of his being to the place which יהוה chooses,

7then he shall serve in the Name of יהוה his Elohim, like all his brothers the Lĕwites, who are standing there before יהוה.

8“They are to have portion for portion to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.

9“When you come into the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, do not learn to do according to the abominations of those gentiles.

10“Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practises divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,

11or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

12“For whoever does these are an abomination to יהוה, and because of these abominations יהוה your Elohim drives them out from before you.

13“Be perfect before יהוה your Elohim,

14for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using magic and to diviners. But as for you, יהוה your Elohim has not appointed such for you.

15“יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him,

16according to all you asked of יהוה your Elohim in Ḥorĕḇ in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of יהוה my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die.’

17“And יהוה said to me, ‘What they have spoken is good.

18‘I shall raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

19‘And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I require it of him.

20‘But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other mighty ones, even that prophet shall die.’

21“And when you say in your heart, ‘How do we know the word which יהוה has not spoken?’ –

22when the prophet speaks in the Name of יהוה and the word is not, or comes not, that is the word which יהוה has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.