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Deuteronomy 18
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Offerings for Priests and Levites...
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`The priests, the Lewites, all the tribe of Lewi, have no part nor inheritance with Yisra`el. They are to eat the offerings of YHWH made by fire, and His inheritance.
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'But among his brothers Lewi has no inheritance. YHWH is his inheritance, as He has spoken to him.
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'And this is the priest's right from the people, from those who bring an offering, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the stomach;
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the first-fruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you give to him.
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'For YHWH your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of YHWH, him and his sons forever.
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'And when the Lewite comes from one of your gates, from where he has sojourned among all Yisra'el, and shall come with all the desire of his being to the place which YHWH chooses,
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then he shall serve in the Name of YHWH his Elohim, like all his brothers the Lewites, who are standing there before YHWH.
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'They are to have portion for portion to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.
Detestable Practices...
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`When you come into the land which YHWH your Elohim is giving you, do not learn to do according to the abominations of those gentiles.
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`Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practises divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,
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or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
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`For whoever does these are an abomination to YHWH, and because of these abominations YHWH your Elohim drives them out from before you.
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'Be perfect before YHWH your Elohim,
The Prophet...
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for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using magic and to diviners. But as for you, YHWH your Elohim has not appointed such for you.
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' YHWH your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophett like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him,
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according to all you asked of YHWH your Elohim in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die.'
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'And YHWH said to me, 'What they have spoken is good.
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'I shall raise up for them a Prophetu like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Wordsv in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.
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'And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I require it of him.
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'But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other mighty ones, even that prophet shall die.'
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'And when you say in your heart, 'How do we know the word which YHWH has not spoken?' -
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when the prophet speaks in the Name of YHWH and the word is not, or comes not, that is the word which YHWH has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 18
Deuteronomy 18 |