Deuteronomy:18
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The 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 .
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Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren :
the LORD is their inheritance ,
as he has said unto them .
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And 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 .
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The first-fruit also of your corn ,
of your wine ,
and of yours oil ,
and the first of the fleece of your sheep ,
shall you give him .
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For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes ,
to stand to minister in the name of the LORD ,
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 sojourned ,
and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose ;
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Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God ,
as all his brethren the Levites do ,
which stand there before the LORD .
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They shall have like portions to eat ,
beside that which comes of the sale of his patrimony .
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When you are come into the land which the LORD 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 among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire ,
or that uses divination ,
or an observer of times ,
or an enchanter ,
or a witch .
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Or a charmer ,
or a consulter with familiar spirits ,
or a wizard ,
or a necromancer .
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For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD :
and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you .
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You shall be perfect with the LORD your God .
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For these nations ,
which you shall possess ,
hearkened unto observers of times ,
and unto diviners :
but as for you ,
the LORD your God has not suffered you so to do .
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The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you ,
of your brethren ,
like unto me ;
unto him all of you shall hearken ;
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According to all that you desired of the LORD your 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 .
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And the LORD said unto me ,
They have well spoken that which they have spoken .
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I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren ,
like unto you ,
and will put my words in his mouth ;
and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him .
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And 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 .
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But 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 .
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And if you say in yours heart ,
How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken ?
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When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD ,
if the thing follow not ,
nor come to pass ,
that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken ,
but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously :
you shall not be afraid of him .