Deuteronomy18

Deuteronomy 18 outlines the provisions for the Levites and priests, who receive no land inheritance but are sustained by the LORD's offerings and the people's firstfruits. The chapter strictly forbids Israel from engaging in the abominable practices of the surrounding nations, such as divination and necromancy. It concludes with the promise of a future Prophet like Moses, through whom God will speak, and establishes criteria for discerning true prophets from false ones.

Provision for Priests and Levites

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The Priests of the Leuites, and all the tribe of Leui shall haue no part nor inheritace with Israel, but shall eate the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.
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Therefore shall they haue no inheritance among their brethren: for the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath sayd vnto them.
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And this shalbe the Priests duetie of the people, that they, which offer sacrifice, whether it be bullocke or sheepe, shall giue vnto the Priest the shoulder, and the two cheekes, and the mawe.
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The first fruites also of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first of the fleece of thy sheepe shalt thou giue him.
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For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stande and minister in the Name of the Lord, him, and his sonnes for euer.
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Also when a Leuite shall come out of any of thy cities of all Israel, where hee remained, and come with all the desire of his heart vnto the place, which the Lord shall chuse,
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He shall then minister in the Name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Leuites, which remaine there before the Lord.
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They shall haue like portions to eat beside that which commeth of his sale of his patrimonie.

Prohibition of Pagan Practices

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When thou shalt come into ye land which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to do after ye abominations of those nations.
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Let none be founde among you that maketh his sonne or his daughter to goe thorough the fire, or that vseth witchcraft, or a regarder of times, or a marker of the flying of foules, or a sorcerer,
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Or a charmer, or that counselleth with spirits, or a soothsaier, or that asketh counsel at ye dead.
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For all that doe such things are abomination vnto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doeth cast them out before thee.
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Thou shalt be vpright therefore with the Lord thy God.
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For these nations which thou shalt possesse, hearken vnto those that regarde the times, and vnto sorcerers: as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffred thee so.

A Prophet Like Moses

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The Lord thy God will raise vp vnto thee a Prophet like vnto me, from among you, euen of thy brethren: vnto him ye shall hearken,
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According to al that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assemblie, when thou saidest, Let me heare the voice of my Lord God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I die not.
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And the Lord sayde vnto me, They haue well spoken.
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I will raise them vp a Prophet from among their brethren like vnto thee, and will put my woordes in his mouth, and he shall speake vnto them all that I shall commaund him.
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And whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my wordes, which he shall speake in my Name, I will require it of him.
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But the prophet that shall presume to speake a worde in my name, which I haue not commanded him to speake, or that speaketh in the name of other gods, euen the same prophet shall die.
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And if thou thinke in thine heart, Howe shall we knowe the worde which the Lord hath not spoken?
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When a prophet speaketh in the Name of the Lord, if the thing follow not nor come to passe, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not therefore be afraid of him.
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