Deuteronomy 18
New King James Version

The Portion of the Priests and Levites

18 “The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have^[a]no part nor^(A)inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of theLordmade by fire, and His portion.²Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; theLordis their inheritance, as He said to them.

³“And this shall be the priest’s^(B)due^[b]from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whetherit isbull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.⁴^(C)The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.⁵For^(D)theLordyour God has chosen him out of all your tribes^(E)to stand to minister in the name of theLord, him and his sons forever.

⁶“So if a Levite comes from any of your^[c]gates, from where he^(F)dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind^(G)to the place which theLordchooses,⁷then he may serve in the name of theLordhis God^(H)as all his brethren the Levitesdo,who stand there before theLord.⁸They shall have equal^(I)portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.

Avoid Wicked Customs

⁹“When you come into the land which theLordyour God is giving you,^(J)you shall not learn to follow the^[d]abominations of those nations.¹⁰There shall not be found among youanyonewho makes his son or his daughter^(K)pass^[e]through the fire,^(L)or onewho practices witchcraft,ora soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,¹¹^(M)or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or^(N)one who calls up the dead.¹²For all who do these thingsare^[f]an abomination to theLord, and^(O)because of these abominations theLordyour God drives them out from before you.¹³You shall be^[g]blameless before theLordyour God.¹⁴For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, theLordyour God has not^[h]appointed such for you.

A New Prophet Like Moses

¹⁵^(P)“TheLordyour God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,¹⁶according to all you desired of theLordyour God in Horeb^(Q)in the day of the assembly, saying,^(R)‘Let me not hear again the voice of theLordmy God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’

¹⁷“And theLordsaid to me:^(S)‘What they have spoken is good.¹⁸^(T)I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and^(U)will put My words in His mouth,^(V)and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.¹⁹^(W)And it shall bethatwhoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will requireitof him.²⁰But^(X)the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or^(Y)who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’²¹And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which theLordhas not spoken?’—²²^(Z)when a prophet speaks in the name of theLord,^(AA)if the thing does not happen or come to pass, thatisthe thing which theLordhas not spoken; the prophet has spoken it^(AB)presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.