Deuteronomy 18

lo-yihyeh lakkohanim haleviyyim kol-shevet levi kheleq venakhalah im-yisra'el ishe Adonai venakhalato yokhelun

The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no territorial portion with Israel. They shall live only off GOD’s offerings by fire as their portion,

venakhalah lo-yihyeh-llo beqerev ekhayw Adonai hu nakhalato ka'asher dibber-lo

and shall have no portion among their brother tribes: GOD is their portion, as promised.

vezeh yihyeh mishpat hakkohanim me'et ha'am me'et zovekhe hazzevakh im-shor im-seh venatan lakkohen hazzeroa vehallekhayayim vehaqqevah

This, then, shall be the priests’ due from the people: Everyone who offers a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep, must give the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach to the priest.

reshit deganekha tiroshekha veyitsharekha vereshit gez tsonekha titten-lo

You shall also give him the first fruits of your new grain and wine and oil, and the first shearing of your sheep.

ki vo bakhar Adonai elohekha mikkol-shevatekha la'amod lesharet beshem-Adonai hu uvanayw kol-hayyamim

For the ETERNAL your God has chosen him and his descendants, out of all your tribes, to be in attendance for service in the name of GOD for all time.

vekhi-yavo hallevi me'akhad she'arekha mikkol-yisra'el asher-hu gar sham uva bekhol-avvat nafsho el-hammaqom asher-yivkhar Adonai

If a Levite would go, from any of the settlements throughout Israel where he has been residing, to the place that GOD has chosen, he may do so whenever he pleases.

vesheret beshem Adonai elohayw kekhol-ekhayw haleviyyim ha'omedim sham lifne Adonai

He may serve in the name of the ETERNAL his God like all his fellow Levites who are there in attendance before GOD.

kheleq kekheleq yokhelu levad mimkarayw al-ha'avot

They shall receive equal shares of the dues, without regard to personal gifts or patrimonies.

ki attah ba el-ha'arets asher-Adonai elohekha noten lakh lo-tilmad la'asot keto'avot haggoyim hahem

When you enter the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.

lo-yimmatse vekha ma'avir beno-uvitto ba'esh qosem qesamim me'onen umenakhesh umekhashef

Let no one be found among you who consigns a son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer,

vekhover khaver vesho'el ov veyidde'oni vedoresh el-hammetim

one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead.

ki-to'avat Adonai kol-oseh elleh uviglal hatto'evot ha'elleh Adonai elohekha morish otam mippanekha

For anyone who does such things is abhorrent to GOD, and it is because of these abhorrent things that the ETERNAL your God is dispossessing them before you.

tamim tihyeh im Adonai elohekha

You must be wholehearted with the ETERNAL your God.

ki haggoyim ha'elleh asher attah yoresh otam el-me'onenim ve'el-qosemim yishma'u ve'attah lo khen natan lekha Adonai elohekha

Those nations that you are about to dispossess do indeed resort to soothsayers and augurs; to you, however, the ETERNAL your God has not assigned the like.

navi miqqirbekha me'akhekha kamoni yaqim lekha Adonai elohekha elayw tishma'un

From among your own people, the ETERNAL your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself—whom you shall heed.

kekhol asher-sha'alta me'im Adonai elohekha bekhorev beyom haqqahal lemor lo osef lishmoa et-qol Adonai elohay ve'et-ha'esh haggedolah hazzot lo-ereh od velo amut

This is just what you asked of the ETERNAL your God at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, saying, “Let me not hear the voice of the ETERNAL my God any longer or see this wondrous fire anymore, lest I die.”

vayyomer Adonai elay hetivu asher dibberu

Whereupon GOD said to me, “They have done well in speaking thus.

navi aqim lahem miqqerev akhehem kamokha venatatti devaray befiv vedibber alehem et kol-asher atsavvennu

I will raise up for them from among their own people a prophet like yourself, in whose mouth I will put My words and who will speak to them all that I command;

vehayah ha'ish asher lo-yishma el-devaray asher yedabber bishmi anokhi edrosh me'immo

and anybody who fails to heed the words spoken in My name, I Myself will call to account.

akh hannavi asher yazid ledabber davar bishmi et asher lo-tsivvitiv ledabber va'asher yedabber beshem elohim akherim umet hannavi hahu

But any prophet who presumes to speak in My name an oracle that I did not command to be uttered, or who speaks in the name of other gods—that prophet shall die.”

vekhi tomar bilvavekha ekhah neda et-haddavar asher lo-dibbero Adonai

And should you ask yourselves, “How can we know that the oracle was not spoken by GOD?”—

asher yedabber hannavi beshem Adonai velo-yihyeh haddavar velo yavo hu haddavar asher lo-dibbero Adonai bezadon dibbero hannavi lo tagur mimmennu

if the prophet speaks in GOD’s name and the oracle does not come true, that oracle was not spoken by GOD; the prophet has uttered it presumptuously: do not stand in dread of them.