Deuteronomy · Majority Standard Bible
Deuteronomy 18 Majority Standard Bible
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1 The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance.
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 Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.
2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
3 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.
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 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
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 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.
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 Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
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 then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
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 They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
8 They shall have like portions to eat, in addition to that which comes from the sale of his family possessions.
9 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
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 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
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 casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
11 or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 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.
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 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
13 You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.
14 Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
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 your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
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 This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb 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!”
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 Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
17 Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.
18 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.
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 I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
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 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.”
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 You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
21 You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”
22 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.
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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