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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.
02 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among
their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as
he hath said unto them.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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;
07 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.
08 They shall have like portions to eat, beside
that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
09 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.
10 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.
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
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12 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.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
14 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.
15 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;
16 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.
17 And the Lord said unto me, They have well
spoken that which they have 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 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.
20 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.
21 And if thou say 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 be afraid of him.
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