[1] "The Levitical priests, that is, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no
portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings by fire to
the LORD, and his rightful dues. [2] They shall have no inheritance among
their brethren; 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 it be ox or sheep: they shall give to the priest the
shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. [4] The first fruits of your
grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your
sheep, you shall give him. [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 ever. [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 which
the LORD will choose, [7] then he may minister in the name of the LORD his
God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the
LORD. [8] They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives
from the sale of his patrimony. [9] "When you come into the land which the
LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable
practices of those nations. [10] There shall not be found among you any one
who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices
divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, [11] or a charmer, or
a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. [12] For whoever does these things
is an abomination to the LORD; and because of these abominable practices
the LORD your God is driving them out before you. [13] You shall be
blameless before the LORD your God. [14] For these nations, which you are
about to dispossess, give heed to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for
you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do. [15] "The LORD your
God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your
brethren--him you shall heed-- [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.' [17] And the LORD said to me, `They have rightly said all that they
have spoken. [18] I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among
their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to
them all that I command him. [19] And whoever will not give heed to my
words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will 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 gods, that
same prophet shall die.' [21] And if you say in your heart, `How may we
know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'-- [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 which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it
presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him.