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Deuteronomy, Chapter 18

¹ “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the LORD’S offerings by fire and His^a Or inheritanceportion. ² They shall have no inheritance among their^b Lit brotherscountrymen; the LORD is their inheritance, as He^c Lit spoke topromised them.	1 Deu 10:9 Co1 9:13 2 Num 18:20
³ “Now this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep, of which they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. ⁴ You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first shearing of your sheep. ⁵ For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand^d Lit toand serve in the name of the LORD forever.	3 Lev 7:32-34 Num 18:11 Num 18:12 4 Num 18:12 5 Exo 29:9 Deu 10:8
⁶ “Now if a Levite comes from any of your^e Lit gatestowns throughout Israel where he resides, and comes^f Lit with all the desire of his soulwhenever he desires to the place which the LORD chooses, ⁷ then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD. ⁸ They shall eat^g Lit portion like portionequal portions, except what they receive from the sale of their fathers’ estates.	6 Num 35:2 Num 35:3 8 Lev 27:30-33 Num 18:21-24 Ch2 31:4 Neh 12:44
⁹ “When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to^h Lit do according toimitate the detestable things of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. ¹² For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you. ¹³ You shall beⁱblameless before the LORD your God. ¹⁴ For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.	9 Deu 9:5 10 Deu 12:31 Exo 22:18 Lev 19:26 Lev 19:31 Lev 20:6 Jer 27:9 Jer 27:10 Mal 3:5 11 Lev 19:31 12 Lev 18:24 13 Gen 6:9 Gen 17:1 Mat 5:48 14 Ki2 21:6
¹⁵ “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your^j Lit brotherscountrymen, you shall listen to him. ¹⁶ This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’ ¹⁷ The LORD said to me, ‘They have^k Lit done well what they have spokenspoken well. ¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet from among their^l Lit brotherscountrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. ¹⁹ It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods,^m Lit and thatthat prophet shall die.’ ²¹ ⁿ Lit if you sayYou may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ ²² When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.	15 Mat 21:11 Luk 2:25-34 Luk 7:16 Luk 24:19 Joh 1:21 Joh 1:25 Joh 4:19 Act 3:22 Act 7:37 16 Exo 20:18 Exo 20:19 Deu 5:23-27 17 Deu 5:28 18 Isa 51:16 Joh 17:8 Joh 4:25 Joh 8:28 Joh 12:49 Joh 12:50 19 Act 3:23 Heb 12:25 20 Deu 13:5 Deu 17:12 Deu 13:1 Deu 13:2 Jer 14:14 Zec 13:3 22 Jer 28:9 Deu 18:20


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