^18:1 The priests the Levites, even all the tribe of Levi, will have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They will eat the fire-offerings of Jehovah and his inheritance. ^18:2 And they will have no inheritance among their brothers. Jehovah is their inheritance as he has spoken to them.

    ^18:3 And this will be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is ox or sheep: that they will give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. ^18:4 The first-fruits of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you will give him. ^18:5 Because Jehovah your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons forever.

    ^18:6 And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he travels and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Jehovah will choose, ^18:7 then he will minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brothers the Levites do who stand there before Jehovah. ^18:8 They will have like portions to eat, besides what comes of the sale of his patrimony.

    ^18:9 When you have come into the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, you will not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

    ^18:10 There will not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, a psychic, he who practices witchcraft, or a user of omens, or a sorcerer, ^18:11 or a charmer, or a medium, or a spiritist, or a necromancer. ^18:12 Because whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these abominations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you.^18:13 You will be perfect with Jehovah your God. ^18:14Because these nations, that you will evict, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to psychics. But as for you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.

    ^18:15 Jehovah your God will raise up for you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You^* will listen to him, ^18:16 according to all that you desired of Jehovah your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Do not let me hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I do not die. ^18:17 And Jehovah said to me, They have well said what they have spoken.

    ^18:18 I will raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, like you. And I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them all that I will command him. ^18:19 And it will happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he will speak in my name, I will require it of him.

    ^18:20 But the prophet, who will speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who will speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet will die.

    ^18:21 And if you say in your heart, How will we know the word which Jehovah has not spoken? ^18:22When a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah, if the thing does not follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You will not be afraid of him.