1 The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the LORD’s offerings by fire and his inheritance. 2 He shall have no inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as he has told him.

3 This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether an ox or an animal from the flock: they shall give the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach. 4 You shall give him the first of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your flock, 5 for the LORD your God has chosen him from all your tribes to stand and serve in the name of the LORD, he and his sons always.

6 If a Levite comes from any of your gates, from anywhere in Israel where he resides, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place the LORD will 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. 8 They shall eat equal portions, apart from what he receives from the sale of his family property.

9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to do the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, anyone who practices divination, a soothsayer, an interpreter of omens, or a sorcerer, 11 one who casts spells, one who consults a medium or a spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead. 12 For everyone who does these things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless with the LORD your God.

14 For these nations you are dispossessing listen to soothsayers and diviners, but the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers. You shall listen to him, 16 according to all you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire anymore, so that I do not die.’ 17 The LORD said to me, ‘They have done well in what they have said. 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 shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 And the man who does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. 20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ 21 If you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word the LORD has not spoken?’ 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, and the word does not happen or come to pass, that is the word the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not fear him.