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They are to eat the offerings made by fire to the LORD; that is their inheritance. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Sorcery Forbidden<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/8.htm#9">Acts 8:9–25</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You must be blameless before the LORD your God. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">A Prophet Like Moses<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/3.htm#11">Acts 3:11–26</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!” <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Literally <i>makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Cited in <a href="../acts/3.htm#22">Acts 3:22</a><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai<br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> See <a href="../acts/3.htm#23">Acts 3:23</a>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. Used by Permission. 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