Deuteronomy 18

1 The priests, who are Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, will have no portion nor inheritance with Israel; they must eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire as their inheritance.

The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt offerings of the Lord [are] their inheritance, they shall eat them.

2 They must have no inheritance among their brothers; Yahweh is their inheritance, as he said to them.

And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself [is] his portion, as he said to him.

3 This is the share given to the priests, given to them from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether it be an oxen or a sheep: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.

And this [is] the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and you shall give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:

4 The firstfruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you must give him.

and the first fruits of your corn, and of your wine, and of your oil; and you shall give to him the first fruits of the fleeces of your sheep:

5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons forever.

because the Lord has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand before the Lord your God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.

6 If a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel from where he is living, and desires with all his soul to come to the place Yahweh will choose,

And if a Levite come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which he shall have chosen,

7 then he must serve in the name of Yahweh his God as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.

he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord your God.

8 They must have similar portions to eat, besides of what comes of the sale of his family's inheritance.

He shall eat an allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property.

9 When you have come into the land that Yahweh your God is giving you, you must not learn to observe the abominations of those nations.

And when you shall have entered into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

10 There must not be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or his daughter in the fire, anyone who uses divination or tells fortunes, or reads signs found in a cup, or engages in witchcraft,

There shall not be found in you one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,

11 any charmer, anyone who conjurs up spirits, or one who casts spells, or who talks with spirits of the dead.

a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead.

12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh; it is because of these abominations that Yahweh your God is driving them out from before you.

For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before your face.

13 You must be blameless before Yahweh your God.

You shall be perfect before the Lord your God.

14 For these nations that you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and divination; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do so.

For all these nations whose [land] you shall inherit, they will listen to omens and divinations; but the Lord your God has not permitted you so [to do].

15 Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet from among you, one of your brothers, like me. You must listen to him.

The Lord your God shall raise up to you a prophet of your brethren, like me; him shall you hear:

16 This is what you asked from Yahweh your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let us not hear again the voice of Yahweh our God, nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.'

according to all things which you did desire of the Lord your God in Choreb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord your God, and we will not any more see this great fire, and [so] we shall not die.

17 Yahweh said to me, 'What they have said is good.

And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to you.

18 I will raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, just like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him.

I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.

19 It will happen that if anyone does not listen to the words of mine that he speaks in my name, I will require it of him.

And whatever man shall not listen to whatever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.

20 But the prophet who speaks a word arrogantly in my name, a word that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that very prophet must die.'

But the prophet whoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.

21 This is what you must say in your heart: 'How will we recognize a message that Yahweh has not spoken?'

But if you shall say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?

22 You will recognize a message that Yahweh has spoken when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh. If that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken and the prophet has spoken it arrogantly, and you must not be afraid of him.

Whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this [is] the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken wickedly: you shall not spare him.