Deut 18
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The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance
with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of YHWH made by fire, and his inheritance.
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And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: YHWH is their inheritance,
as he has spoken to them.
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And this shall be the priests` due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice,
whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the
two cheeks, and the maw.
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The first-fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of
the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
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For YHWH your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the
name of YHWH, him and his sons for ever.
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And if a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns,
and come with all the desire of his soul to the place which YHWH shall choose;
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then he shall minister in the name of YHWH his God, as all his brethren the Levites
do, who stand there before YHWH.
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They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his
patrimony.
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When you are come into the land which YHWH your God gives you, you shall not learn
to do after the abominations of those nations.
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There shall not be found with you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass
through the fire, one that uses divination, one that practises augury, or an enchanter,
or a sorcerer,
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or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
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For whoever does these things is an abomination to YHWH: and because of these abominations
YHWH your God does drive them out from before you.
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You shall be perfect with YHWH your God.
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For these nations, that you shall dispossess, hearken to them that practise augury,
and to diviners; but as for you, YHWH your God has not suffered you so to do.
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YHWH your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren,
like to me; to him you shall hearken;
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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, neither let me see this great
fire any more, that I die not.
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And YHWH said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.
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I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like to you; and I will
put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
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And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not hearken to my words which he shall
speak in my name, I will require it of him.
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But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet
shall die.
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And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which YHWH has not spoken?
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when a prophet speaks in the name of YHWH, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass,
that is the thing which YHWH has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously,
you shall not be afraid of him.