Deuteronomy 18 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the LORD’s food offerings as their inheritance. The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no hereditary portion with Israel; they shall eat the fire offerings of the LORD and the portions due to him. The Levitical priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings presented to the LORD, for that is their inheritance.
2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them. They shall have no heritage among their kindred; the LORD himself is their heritage, as he has told them. They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; 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: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. This shall be the due of the priests from the people: those who are offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep, shall give the priest the shoulder, the jowls and the stomach. This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the internal organs and the meat from the head.
4 The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. The first fruits of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the first shearing of your flock, you shall also give him. You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,
5 For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time. For the LORD, your God, has chosen him out of all your tribes to be in attendance to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his descendants for all time. for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD’s name always.
6 “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires—to the place that the LORD will choose, When a Levite goes from one of your communities anywhere in Israel in which he has been residing, to visit, as his heart may desire, the place which the LORD will choose, If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
7 and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD, and ministers there in the name of the LORD, his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand before the LORD there, he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the LORD.
8 then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony. he shall receive the same portions to eat, along with his stipends and patrimony. He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.
9 “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. When you come into the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of the nations there. When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer Let there not be found among you anyone who causes their son or daughter to pass through the fire, or practices divination, or is a soothsayer, augur, or sorcerer, Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
11 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, or who casts spells, consults ghosts and spirits, or seeks oracles from the dead. or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you. Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is dispossessing them before you. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD; because of these same detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.
13 You shall be blameless before the LORD your God, You must be altogether sincere with the LORD, your God. You must 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. Although these nations whom you are about to dispossess listen to their soothsayers and diviners, the LORD, your God, will not permit you to do so. The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
15 “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— A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kindred; that is the one to whom you shall listen. The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
16 just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let me not again hear the voice of the LORD, my God, nor see this great fire any more, or I will die.” For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”
17 And the LORD said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken. And the LORD said to me, What they have said is good. The LORD said to me: “What they say is good.
18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kindred, and will put my words into the mouth of the prophet; the prophet shall tell them all that I command. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.
19 And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. Anyone who will not listen to my words which the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will hold accountable for it. I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.
20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ But if a prophet presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die. But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?’— Should you say to yourselves, “How can we recognize that a word is one the LORD has not spoken?”, You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?”
22 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; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. if a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD but the word does not come true, it is a word the LORD did not speak. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; do not fear him. If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
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