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Deuteronomy 18 :: New English Translation (NET)

Deu 18:1

Deu 18:1The Levitical priests - indeed, the entire tribe of Levi - will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance.

Deu 18:2

Deu 18:2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

Deu 18:3

Deu 18:3This shall be the priests' fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep - they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

Deu 18:4

Deu 18:4You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

Deu 18:5

Deu 18:5For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

Deu 18:6

Deu 18:6Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the LORD chooses

Deu 18:7

Deu 18:7and serves in the name of the LORD his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

Deu 18:8

Deu 18:8He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family's inheritance.

Spiritism Forbidden

Deu 18:9

Deu 18:9When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

Deu 18:10

Deu 18:10There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

Deu 18:11

Deu 18:11one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.

Deu 18:12

Deu 18:12Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.

Deu 18:13

Deu 18:13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Deu 18:14

Deu 18:14Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the LORD your God has not given you permission to do such things.

Deu 18:15

Deu 18:15The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you - from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.

Deu 18:16

Deu 18:16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God: "Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die."

Deu 18:17

Deu 18:17The LORD then said to me, "What they have said is good.

Deu 18:18

Deu 18:18I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

Deu 18:19

Deu 18:19I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

Deu 18:20

Deu 18:20"But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Deu 18:21

Deu 18:21Now if you say to yourselves, 'How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?' -

Deu 18:22

Deu 18:22whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him."
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