Deuteronomy:18

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* The priests , the Levites , [and ] the whole tribe of Levi , shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel : Jehovah 's offerings by fire , and his inheritance shall they eat , * but they shall have no inheritance among their brethren : Jehovah , he is their inheritance , as he hath said unto them . * And this shall be the priest 's due from the people , from them that sacrifice a sacrifice , whether ox , or sheep : they shall give unto the priest the shoulder , and the jawbones , and the maw . * The firstfruits [also ] of thy corn , of thy new wine , and of thine oil , and the firstfruits of the shearing of thy sheep , shalt thou give him ; * for Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes , that he may stand to serve in the name of Jehovah , he and his sons continually . * And if the Levite shall come from one of thy gates out of all Israel , where he sojourneth , and shall come according to all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah will choose , * and shall serve in the name of Jehovah his God , as all his brethren the Levites that stand there before Jehovah , * -- they shall have like portions to eat , besides that which he hath sold of his patrimony . * When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations . * There shall not be found among you he that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire , that useth divination , that useth auguries , or an enchanter , or a sorcerer , * or a charmer , or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python , or a soothsayer , or one that consulteth the dead . * For every one that doeth these things is an abomination to Jehovah , and because of these abominations Jehovah thy God doth dispossess them from before thee . * Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God . * For these nations , which thou shalt dispossess , hearkened unto those that use auguries , and that use divination ; but as for thee , Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee [to do ] so . * Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee , of thy brethren , like unto me ; unto him shall ye hearken ; * according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God at Horeb on the day of the assembly , saying , Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God , neither let me see this great fire any more , that I die not . * And Jehovah said unto me , They have well spoken that which they have spoken . * A prophet will I raise up unto them 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 . * And it shall come to pass that the man who hearkeneth not unto my words which he shall speak in my name , I will require it of him . * But the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak , or that shall speak in the name of other gods , that prophet shall die . * And if thou say in thy heart , How shall we know the word that Jehovah hath not spoken ? * When a prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah , and the thing followeth not , nor cometh to pass , that is the word which Jehovah hath not spoken ; the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously : be not afraid of him .

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