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"The Levitical priests, that is, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings by fire to the LORD, and his rightful dues. |
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They shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them. |
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And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether it be ox 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, of your wine and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. |
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For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. |
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"And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives -- and he may come when he desires -- to the place which the LORD will choose, |
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then he may minister in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD. |
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They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony. |
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"When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. |
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There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, |
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or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. |
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For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD; and because of these abominable practices the LORD your God is driving them out before you. |
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You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. |
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For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, give heed to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do. |
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"The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren -- him you shall heed -- |
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just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, `Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, or see this great fire any more, lest I die.' |
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And the LORD said to me, `They have rightly said all that they have spoken. |
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I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. |
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And whoever will not give heed to my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will 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 gods, that same prophet shall die.' |
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And if you say in your heart, `How may 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 word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him. |
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