Offerings for Priests and Levites
1The Levitical priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings presented to the Lord, for that is their inheritance. 2They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.
3This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the internal organs and the meat from the head. 4You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep, 5for the Lord your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the Lord’s name always.
6If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the Lord will choose, 7he may minister in the name of the Lord his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the Lord. 8He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.
Occult Practices
9When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. 13You must be blameless before the Lord your God.
The Prophet
14The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so. 15The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. 16For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”
17The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. 18I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. 19I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name. 20But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
21You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” 22If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
利未人的產業
1「利未祭司及其他利未支派的人在以色列不可擁有土地。他們吃的是獻給耶和華的火祭，那是他們的產業。 2他們在眾支派中沒有自己的產業，因為耶和華是他們的產業，這是祂的應許。 3眾人所獻的牛羊的前腿、腮頰和胃應歸祭司。 4你們要給祭司初收的五穀、新酒、新油和初剪的羊毛。 5因為你們的上帝耶和華從各支派中揀選了利未人，讓他們世代奉祂的名侍立供職。
6「以色列境內任何地方的利未人若願意離開自己所住的城，一心要去耶和華選定的地方， 7他可以像在耶和華面前事奉的其他利未人一樣，在那裡奉他的上帝耶和華之名事奉。 8除了變賣產業所得之外，他還可以分到與其他祭司同等分量的祭物。
不可隨從外族風俗
9「你們進入你們的上帝耶和華將要賜給你們的土地後，不可仿效當地民族的可憎行徑。 10你們當中不可有人焚燒自己的子女作祭物，不可有人占卜、算命、作法、行邪術、 11念咒、做靈媒、行巫術或求問亡靈。 12凡做這些事的人都是耶和華所憎惡的。正是因為當地的民族做這些可憎之事，你們的上帝耶和華才要當著你們的面把他們趕走。 13你們要在你們的上帝耶和華面前純全無過。
耶和華使一位先知興起
14「你們將要趕走的那些民族聽信術士和巫師，但你們的上帝耶和華不准你們仿效他們。 15你們的上帝耶和華要在你們中間興起一位像我一樣的先知，你們要聽從他。 16這正是你們在何烈山聚會時向你們的上帝耶和華所求的，當時你們說，『不要讓我們再聽見我們上帝耶和華的聲音，也不要讓我們再看見這烈火，免得我們死亡。』 17於是，耶和華對我說，『他們說的對。 18我要在他們當中選立一位像你一樣的先知，我會告訴他該說的話，他要把我的一切吩咐告訴他們。 19如果有人不聽從他奉我的名所說的話，我必親自懲罰那人。 20若有先知冒我的名說我未曾吩咐他的話，或以其他神明的名義說話，必須處死他。』 21你們也許心裡會問，『我們如何知道是否是耶和華說的話呢？』 22如果先知奉耶和華的名說的話沒有應驗，他的話就不是耶和華說的。他是妄自說預言，你們不用怕他。
