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The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi , shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel : they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance .
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Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren : the LORD is their inheritance , as he hath said to them.
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And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep; and they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks , and the maw.
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The first -fruit also of thy corn , of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep , shalt thou give him.
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For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes , to stand to minister in the name of the LORD , him and his sons for ever.
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And if a Levite shall come from any of thy gates out of all Israel , where he sojourned , and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;
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Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God , as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD .
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They shall have like portions to eat , beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
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When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations .
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There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire , or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
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Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard , or a necromancer .
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For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD : and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
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Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God .
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For these nations , which thou shalt possess, hearkened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
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The LORD thy God will raise up to thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren , like to me; to him ye shall hearken .
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According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly , saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God , neither let me see this great fire any more, that I may not die .
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And the LORD said to me, They have well spoken of that which they have spoken .
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I will raise up to them a prophet from among their brethren , like 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 come to pass, that whoever will not hearken to my words which he shall speak in my name , I will require it of him.
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But the prophet , who shall presume to speak a word in my name , which I have not commanded him to speak , or that shall speak in the name of other gods , even that prophet shall die .
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And if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken ?
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When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD , if the thing doth not follow, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken , but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.