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The priests , the Levites, even all the tribe◦ of Levi , shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel ; they shall eat the fire··offerings of Jehovah , and His inheritance .
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And the Levite shall have◦ no◦ inheritance among his brothers ; Jehovah is his inheritance , as◦ He has spoken to him.
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And this shall be the judgment of the priest from the people, from those who sacrifice the sacrifice, whether it be an ox or sheep◦; and he shall give to the priest the arm , and the two jaws , and the maw.
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The firstfruit also of thy grain , of thy must*, and of thine olive··oil, and the first of the fleece of thy flock , shalt thou give him.
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For Jehovah thy God has chosen him out of all thy tribes ◦, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah , him and his sons all the days .
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And if a Levite come from any one of thy gates out of all Israel , where he sojourned , and come with all the longing of his soul to the place which Jehovah shall choose;
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then he shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God , as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Jehovah .
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A part according··to a part they shall eat , besides that which comes of his selling what was of the fathers .
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When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations .
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There shall not be found among◦ thee any one who makes his son or his daughter to pass ··through the fire , or a diviner of divinations, or a wizard, or◦ a fortune··teller, or◦ a sorceress,
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or◦ a charmer of charms, or◦ he who asks of mediums , or◦ a soothsayer, or◦ an inquirer of those who died .
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For all who do these are an abomination to Jehovah ; and because··of these abominations Jehovah thy God dispossesses them from before thee.
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Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God .
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For these nations , which thou◦ shalt possess, hearkened to▵ wizards, and to▵ diviners; but as for thee◦, Jehovah thy God has not given thee to do so.
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Jehovah thy God will raise··up to thee a Prophet from the midst◦ of thee, from thy brothers , like▵ to me; to▵ Him* you shall hearken ;
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according to all that thou askest of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly , saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God , neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
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And Jehovah said to me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken .
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I will raise··up a Prophet for them from among their brothers , like▵ to thee, and will put ◦ My words in His mouth ; and He shall speak to▵ them all that I shall command Him.
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And it shall be, that the man ◦ who will not hearken to▵ My words which he shall speak in My name , I will require it from him.
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But the prophet who shall be··presumptuous to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak , or who shall speak in the name of other gods , even that prophet shall die .
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And if thou say in thy heart, How shall· we ·know the word which Jehovah has not spoken ?
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If a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah , and the word is not, nor come to pass, it is the word which Jehovah has not spoken ; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be··afraid of him.