1The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, will have no share or inheritance with Israel. They will eat the offerings made to the LORD by fire, and what belongs to him.
2So they will have no inheritance among their brothers. The LORD is their inheritance, as he has told them.
3This is what the priest is owed from the people, from those who bring a sacrifice, whether it is an ox or a sheep. They are to give the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.
4You are also to give him the first of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.
5For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and serve in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
6If a Levite comes from any of your towns anywhere in Israel, where he has been living, and he comes with all his heart set on it to the place the LORD will choose,
7then he may serve in the name of the LORD his God, just as all his brothers the Levites do who stand there before the LORD.
8They are to have equal shares to eat, besides what comes from the sale of what his family left him.
9When you come into the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn to copy the detestable things those nations do.
10No one among you is to make his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or use divination, or read omens, or cast spells, or practise witchcraft,
11or charm with words, or ask advice from familiar spirits, or be a wizard, or call up the dead.
12All who do these things are detestable to the LORD. It is because of these detestable things that the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you.
13You are to be blameless before the LORD your God.
14For these nations, whose land you will take, listened to those who read omens and to those who use divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.
15The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me. You are to listen to him.
16This is what you yourself asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day you all gathered, when you said, "Do not let me hear the voice of the LORD my God again, and do not let me see this great fire any more, or I will die."
17And the LORD said to me, "What they have said is good."
18I will raise up for them a Prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
19And whoever will not listen to my words, which he will speak in my name, I myself will call him to account.
20"But the prophet who dares 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 must die."
21And if you say in your heart, "How can we know when a word has not been spoken by the LORD?"
22When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, and the thing does not follow or come true, then that word was not spoken by the LORD. The prophet has spoken it out of his own daring. You need not be afraid of him.