Deuteronomy 18:1-19 ▼

1 There shall not be to the priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—a portion or inheritance with Israel; and the fire offerings of YHWH, His inheritance, they shall eat.

2 And unto them shall be no inheritance among their brothers; YHWH is their inheritance, as He has spoken to them.

3 And this shall be the right of the priest from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is a bull or a sheep; and he shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the cheeks, and the stomach.

4 The firstfruits of your grain, and your new wine, and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give to him.

5 For YHWH your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of YHWH—he and his sons, for all the days.

6 And if a Levite comes from one of your gates among all Israel, from where he dwells, and he comes with all the desire of his soul to the place that YHWH chooses,

7 he may serve in the name of YHWH his God, as all his brothers the Levites who stand there before the face of YHWH.

8 Equal portions they shall have to eat, besides the sale by him of that of the fathers.

9 When you come into the land that YHWH your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of these nations.

10 There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, a user of divinations, a soothsayer, or a diviner, or a sorcerer,

11 or one who conjures spells or consults a medium, or a spiritist, or a seeker of the dead.

12 For an abomination to YHWH is everyone doing these things, and because of these abominations YHWH your God is driving them out from before you.

13 You shall be blameless before YHWH your God.

14 For these nations that you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners, and as for you, YHWH your God has not given for you to do so.

15 YHWH your God will raise up for you a prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me; you? must listen to him

16 according to all that you desired of YHWH your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my God, and let me not see this great fire anymore, so that I will not die.”

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

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

19 And it shall come to pass that whoever will not listen to My words, which he speaks in My name, I will require it of him.