¶ The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have¹ no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall² eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD³ is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice⁴, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

The firstfruit⁵ also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece⁶ of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

⁷For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

And if a Levite come⁸ from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with⁹ all the desire of his mind unto the place¹⁰ which the LORD shall choose;

Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren¹¹ the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.

They shall have like portions¹² to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony¹³.

¶¹⁴When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

¶ There shall not be found among you any one that maketh¹⁵ his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination¹⁶, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer¹⁷.

¹⁸For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Thou shalt¹⁹ be perfect²⁰ with the LORD thy God.

For these nations, which thou shalt possess²¹, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

¶ The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet²² from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me;²³ unto him²⁴ ye shall hearken;

According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb²⁵ in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear²⁶ again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

²⁷And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

I will raise them²⁸ up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto²⁹ thee, and will put³⁰ my words in his mouth; and he shall³¹ speak unto them all that I shall command him.

³²And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

¶ But the prophet³³, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name³⁴ of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

³⁵And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

When a prophet speaketh³⁶ in the name of the LORD, if the thing³⁷ follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously³⁸: thou shalt not³⁹ be afraid of him.