Deuteronomy 18

The priests, the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the gifts of God as his inheritance.

And he shall have no inheritance among his brothers; God is his inheritance, as he spoke to him. \*

And this is the ordinance of the priests, from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether an oxen or a sheep, and they shall give the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach to the priest.

The firstfruits of your grain, your new wine and your oil and the first of the fleece of your sheep you shall give to him.

For God your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the name of God, him and his sons, all of the days. \*

And if the Levite comes from one of your gates from all Israel where he is living there and desires with all his soul to come to the place that God will choose,

then he shall serve in the name of God his God as all his brothers, the Levites, who stand there to the face of God.

They shall eat portions alike portions, besides from the sale of his fathers. \*

When you have come into the land that God your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to do as the abominations of those nations.

There shall not be found among you one who causes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, a user of divination, a soothsayer or a diviner or a sorcerer

or a maker of charms or a questioner of mediums or a conjurer of spirits or a seeker of the dead. \*

For all who do these {are} an abomination {to} God, and because of these abominations, God your God is driving them out from your face.

You shall be blameless with God your God. \*

For these nations, those which you will dispossess, listen to soothsayers and to diviners, but you, thus God your God has not allowed you.

God your God will raise up for you a prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him,

according to all that you asked from God your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘We will not continue to hear the voice of God our God, and we will not see this great fire anymore, or we will die.’ \*

And God said to me, ‘What they have said is good.

I shall raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, like you. And I shall set my words on his lips, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

And it will happen, the man who does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name, I, I will require {it} from him.

But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, then that prophet shall die.’ \*

And thus you must say in your heart, ‘How will we recognize a word that God has not spoken?’ \*

When a prophet speaks in the name of God, and the thing does not happen and does not come to pass, it {is} a word that God has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it in presumption; you shall not be afraid of him. \*