Old Testament · Law

Deuteronomy chapter 18

The — the entire tribe of Levi — won’t receive a portion of land or an with the rest of Israel. They’ll eat from the , because that is their inheritance.They won’t have an inheritance among their fellow tribes. , just as he promised them.This is what the priests are from the people — from anyone who brings a , whether a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the jaws, and the stomach must be given to the priest.You’ll also give him the of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the first shearing of your sheep.Because Yahweh your God him out of all your tribes to in Yahweh’s name — him and his descendants — for all time.If a Levite moves from any town in Israel where he’s been living, and he comes to ,then he may serve his God just like all his fellow Levites who stand serving there before Yahweh.He’ll receive to eat, regardless of what he’s received from .When you enter the land that Yahweh your God is giving you, don’t learn to copy the of those nations.There must never be anyone among you who , or who practices , or looks for omens, or uses , or casts spells,or who conjures the dead, or who is a or , or who consults the dead.Because anyone who does these things is , and it’s because of these disgusting practices that Yahweh your God is driving those nations out ahead of you.You must be to Yahweh your God.The nations you’re about to listen to people who look for omens and practice divination. But Yahweh your God hasn’t allowed you to do that.Yahweh your God will raise up for you a from among your own people, from your own community. You must listen to him.This is exactly what you asked Yahweh your God for at on the day of the , when you said, ‘Don’t let us hear the voice of Yahweh our God again, and don’t let us see this great fire anymore, or we’ll die.’And Yahweh said to me, ‘What they’ve said is good.I’ll raise up a prophet for them from among their own people, just like you. I’ll , and he’ll tell them everything I command him.And anyone who doesn’t listen to my words that he speaks in my name — I will personally .But if a prophet has the to speak a message in my name that I didn’t command him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods — that prophet must die.’Now, you might be thinking, ‘How do we know if a message isn’t from Yahweh?’If a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name and the thing , that’s a message Yahweh didn’t speak. The prophet spoke it out of his own . .