Deuteronomy · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Deuteronomy 18 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt offerings of the Lord [are] their inheritance, they shall eat them.
1 The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion.
2 And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself [is] his portion, as he said to him.
2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
3 And this [is] the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and thou shalt give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:
3 This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.
4 and the firstfruits of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil; and thou shalt give to him the firstfruits of the fleeces of thy sheep:
4 You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
5 because the Lord has chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord thy God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.
5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons forever.
6 And if a Levite come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which he shall have chosen,
6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
7 he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord thy God.
7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
8 He shall eat an allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property.
8 They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.
9 And when thou shalt have entered into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
9 When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found in thee one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,
10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
11 a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, an observer of signs, questioning the dead.
11 or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For everyone that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before thy face.
12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
13 Thou shalt be perfect before the Lord thy God.
13 You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.
14 For all these nations whose [land] thou shalt inherit, they will listen to omens and divinations; but the Lord thy God has not permitted thee so [to do].
14 For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
15 The Lord thy God shall raise up to thee a prophet of thy brethren, like me; him shall ye hear:
15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
16 according to all things which thou didst desire of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and we will not anymore see this great fire, and [so] we shall not die.
16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”
17 And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to thee.
17 Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.
18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
19 And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.
19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet whosoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whosoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”
21 But if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?
21 You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”
22 Whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this [is] the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken wickedly: ye shall not spare him.
22 When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Numbers 18:8–9; Deuteronomy 10:9; 1 Corinthians 9:13–14; Deuteronomy 12:19; Joshua 13:14
- 2 Isaiah 61:6; Lamentations 3:24; Psalm 73:24–26; Genesis 15:1; 1 Peter 2:9
- 3 Leviticus 7:30–34; Deuteronomy 12:27
- 4 Nehemiah 12:44–47; Exodus 23:19; Leviticus 23:17; Numbers 18:12–24; 2 Chronicles 31:4–10
- 5 Deuteronomy 10:8; Numbers 3:10; Exodus 28:1–14; Deuteronomy 17:12; Numbers 16:5
- 6 Numbers 35:2–3; Deuteronomy 12:5; 1 Timothy 3:1; Psalm 26:8; 1 Peter 5:2
- 7 2 Chronicles 31:2–4
- 8 Nehemiah 12:44; Nehemiah 12:47; 2 Chronicles 31:4; Luke 10:7; Leviticus 7:14
- 9 Deuteronomy 12:29–31; Leviticus 18:26–27; Leviticus 18:30
- 10 Leviticus 19:31; Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 12:31; Acts 19:19
- 11 1 Samuel 28:11–14; Leviticus 19:31
- 12 Leviticus 18:24; Deuteronomy 9:4; Leviticus 18:27
- 13 Genesis 17:1; Matthew 5:48; Genesis 6:9; Philippians 3:12; Psalm 37:37
- 14 Acts 14:16; Genesis 20:6; Psalm 147:19–20; Deuteronomy 18:10
- 15 Acts 3:22–23; Acts 7:37; John 1:45; Deuteronomy 18:18–19; Hebrews 1:1–2
- 16 Exodus 20:19; Deuteronomy 9:10; Deuteronomy 5:23–28; Hebrews 12:19
- 17 Deuteronomy 5:28
- 18 John 8:28; John 12:49–50; Deuteronomy 18:15; John 4:25; John 17:8
- 19 Acts 3:22–23; Hebrews 2:3; Hebrews 12:25–26; Hebrews 10:26; Hebrews 3:7
- 20 Deuteronomy 13:1–5; Jeremiah 27:15; Jeremiah 23:31; Zechariah 13:3; Ezekiel 13:6
- 21 1 John 4:1–3; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; Revelation 2:2
- 22 Deuteronomy 18:20; 2 Kings 20:1; Jeremiah 28:1–17; Zechariah 1:5–6; Jonah 4:2
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