Deuteronômio 18

¹ The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and hisThat is, the Lord's part of his inheritance.inheritance.

² Therefore shall they haue no inheritance among their brethren: for the Lorde is their inheritance, as he hath sayd vnto them.

³ And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether [it be] ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest theThe right shoulder, (Num_18:18).shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

⁴ 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.

⁵ For the Lorde 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.

⁶ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come withMeaning, to serve God whole heartedly, and not to seek ease.all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

⁷ He shall then minister in the Name of the Lorde his God, as all his brethren the Leuites, which remaine there before the Lord.

⁸ They shall have like portions to eat,Not forced to live from himself.beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

⁹ When thou shalt come into ye land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to do after ye abominatios of those nations.

¹⁰ There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter toSignifying they were purged by this ceremony of passing between two fires.pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

¹¹ Or a charmer, or that counselleth with spirits, or a soothsaier, or that asketh counsel at ye dead.

¹² For all that doe such things are abomination vnto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lorde thy God doeth cast them out before thee.

¹³ Thou shalt beWithout hypocrisy or mixture or false religion.perfect with the LORD thy God.

¹⁴ For these nations which thou shalt possesse, hearken vnto those that regarde the times, and vnto sorcerers: as for thee, the Lorde thy God hath not suffred thee so.

¹⁵ The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee aMeaning, a continual succession of prophets, till Christ, the end of all prophets, comes.Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

¹⁶ 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 Lorde God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I die not.

¹⁷ And the Lord sayde vnto me, They haue well spoken.

¹⁸ I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in hisA promise not only made to Christ, but to all that teach in his name, (Isa_59:21).mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

¹⁹ And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I willBy executing punishment on him.require [it] of him.

²⁰ 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.

²¹ And if thou thinke in thine heart, Howe shall we knowe the worde which the Lorde hath not spoken?

²² When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thingUnder this sure note he comprises all the other tokens.follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.