| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1“The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the LORD’s food offerings as their inheritance. | 1“Remember that the Levitical priests—that is, the whole of the tribe of Levi—will receive no allotment of land among the other tribes in Israel. Instead, the priests and Levites will eat from the special gifts given to the LORD, for that is their share. |
| 2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them. | 2They will have no land of their own among the Israelites. The LORD himself is their special possession, just as he promised them. |
| 3And 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. | 3“These are the parts the priests may claim as their share from the cattle, sheep, and goats that the people bring as offerings: the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach. |
| 4The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. | 4You must also give to the priests the first share of the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, and the wool at shearing time. |
| 5For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time. | 5For the LORD your God chose the tribe of Levi out of all your tribes to minister in the LORD’s name forever. |
| 6“And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires—to the place that the LORD will choose, | 6“Suppose a Levite chooses to move from his town in Israel, wherever he is living, to the place the LORD chooses for worship. |
| 7and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD, | 7He may minister there in the name of the LORD his God, just like all his fellow Levites who are serving the LORD there. |
| 8then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony. | 8He may eat his share of the sacrifices and offerings, even if he also receives support from his family. A Call to Holy Living |
| 9“When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. | 9“When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, be very careful not to imitate the detestable customs of the nations living there. |
| 10There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer | 10For example, never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering. And do not let your people practice fortune-telling, or use sorcery, or interpret omens, or engage in witchcraft, |
| 11or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, | 11or cast spells, or function as mediums or psychics, or call forth the spirits of the dead. |
| 12for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you. | 12Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. It is because the other nations have done these detestable things that the LORD your God will drive them out ahead of you. |
| 13You shall be blameless before the LORD your God, | 13But you must be blameless before the LORD your God. |
| 14for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this. | 14The nations you are about to displace consult sorcerers and fortune-tellers, but the LORD your God forbids you to do such things.” True and False Prophets |
| 15“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— | 15Moses continued, “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. |
| 16just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ | 16For this is what you yourselves requested of the LORD your God when you were assembled at Mount Sinai. You said, ‘Don’t let us hear the voice of the LORD our God anymore or see this blazing fire, for we will die.’ |
| 17And the LORD said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken. | 17“Then the LORD said to me, ‘What they have said is right. |
| 18I 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. | 18I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him. |
| 19And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. | 19I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf. |
| 20But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ | 20But any prophet who falsely claims to speak in my name or who speaks in the name of another god must die.’ |
| 21And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?’— | 21“But you may wonder, ‘How will we know whether or not a prophecy is from the LORD?’ |
| 22when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. | 22If the prophet speaks in the LORD’s name but his prediction does not happen or come true, you will know that the LORD did not give that message. That prophet has spoken without my authority and need not be feared. |
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