Deuteronomy 18
About Deuteronomy Deuteronomy records Moses' last speeches, retelling the law and urging Israel to love and obey God in the new land.
1The 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:1Ask
2Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:2Ask
3And 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:3Ask
4The 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:4Ask
5For 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:5Ask
6And 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;SelectedDeuteronomy 18:6Ask
7Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:7Ask
8They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:8Ask
9When 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:9Ask
10There 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:10Ask
11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:11Ask
12For 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:12Ask
13Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:13Ask
14For 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:14Ask
15The 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;SelectedDeuteronomy 18:15Ask
16According 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:16Ask
17And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:17Ask
18I 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:18Ask
19And 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:19Ask
20But 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:20Ask
21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?SelectedDeuteronomy 18:21Ask
22When 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 18:22Ask
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