The Church's Bible

The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire and his portion. ²They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Jehovah is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them. ³This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts. ⁴You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep. ⁵For Jehovah your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in Jehovah’s name, him and his sons forever. ⁶If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Jehovah shall choose, ⁷then he shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Jehovah. ⁸They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions. ⁹When you have come into the land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. ¹⁰There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, ¹¹or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. ¹²For whoever does these things is an abomination to Jehovah. Because of these abominations, Jehovah your God drives them out from before you. ¹³You shall be blameless with Jehovah your God. ¹⁴For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, Jehovah your God has not allowed you so to do. ¹⁵Jehovah your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. ¹⁶This is according to all that you desired of Jehovah your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Jehovah my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”

¹⁷Jehovah said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken. ¹⁸I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. ¹⁹It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. ²⁰But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously 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.”

²¹You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Jehovah has not spoken?” ²²When a prophet speaks in Jehovah’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.