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<div class="esv"><h2>Deuteronomy 18 <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.esvapi.org/assets/play.swf?myUrl=hw%2F05018001-05018022" width="40" height="12" class="audio"><param name="movie" value="http://www.esvapi.org/assets/play.swf?myUrl=hw%2F05018001-05018022" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object></h2>
<div class="esv-text"><h3 id="p05018001.01-1">Provision for Priests and Levites</h3>
<p id="p05018001.06-1"><span class="chapter-num" id="v05018001-1">18:1 </span>“The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>'s food offerings<span class="footnote"> <a href="#f1" id="b1" title="Or 'the offerings by fire to the LORD'">[1]</a></span> as their<span class="footnote"> <a href="#f2" id="b2" title="Hebrew 'his'">[2]</a></span> inheritance. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018002-1">2 </span>They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> is their inheritance, as he promised them. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018003-1">3 </span>And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018004-1">4 </span>The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018005-1">5 </span>For the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, him and his sons for all time.</p>
<p id="p05018006.01-1"><span class="verse-num" id="v05018006-1">6 </span>“And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires<span class="footnote"> <a href="#f3" id="b3" title="Or 'lives--if he comes enthusiastically'">[3]</a></span>—to the place that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> will choose, <span class="verse-num" id="v05018007-1">7 </span>and ministers in the name of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, <span class="verse-num" id="v05018008-1">8 </span>then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.<span class="footnote"> <a href="#f4" id="b4" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">[4]</a></span></p>
<h3 id="p05018009.01-1">Abominable Practices</h3>
<p id="p05018009.03-1"><span class="verse-num" id="v05018009-1">9 </span>“When you come into the land that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018010-1">10 </span>There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,<span class="footnote"> <a href="#f5" id="b5" title="Hebrew 'makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire'">[5]</a></span> anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer <span class="verse-num" id="v05018011-1">11 </span>or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, <span class="verse-num" id="v05018012-1">12 </span>for whoever does these things is an abomination to the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>. And because of these abominations the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God is driving them out before you. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018013-1">13 </span>You shall be blameless before the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God, <span class="verse-num" id="v05018014-1">14 </span>for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has not allowed you to do this.</p>
<h3 id="p05018015.01-1">A New Prophet like Moses</h3>
<p id="p05018015.06-1"><span class="verse-num" id="v05018015-1">15 </span>“The <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— <span class="verse-num" id="v05018016-1">16 </span>just as you desired of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ <span class="verse-num" id="v05018017-1">17 </span>And the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018018-1">18 </span>I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018019-1">19 </span>And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. <span class="verse-num" id="v05018020-1">20 </span>But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or<span class="footnote"> <a href="#f6" id="b6" title="Or 'and'">[6]</a></span> who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ <span class="verse-num" id="v05018021-1">21 </span>And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> has not spoken?’— <span class="verse-num" id="v05018022-1">22 </span>when a prophet speaks in the name of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p>
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<h3>Footnotes</h3>
<p><span class="footnote"><a href="#b1" id="f1">[1]</a></span> <span class="footnote-ref">18:1</span> Or <em>the offerings by fire to the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span></em>
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<span class="footnote"><a href="#b2" id="f2">[2]</a></span> <span class="footnote-ref">18:1</span> Hebrew <em>his</em>
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<span class="footnote"><a href="#b3" id="f3">[3]</a></span> <span class="footnote-ref">18:6</span> Or <em>lives—if he comes enthusiastically</em>
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<span class="footnote"><a href="#b4" id="f4">[4]</a></span> <span class="footnote-ref">18:8</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
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<span class="footnote"><a href="#b5" id="f5">[5]</a></span> <span class="footnote-ref">18:10</span> Hebrew <em>makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire</em>
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<span class="footnote"><a href="#b6" id="f6">[6]</a></span> <span class="footnote-ref">18:20</span> Or <em>and</em>
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