1 Die Levitiese priesters, die hele stam van Levi, mag geen deel of erfenis saam met Israel hê nie; van die vuuroffers van die HERE en van sy erfdeel moet hulle eet.
2 En hy mag geen erfdeel hê onder sy broers nie; die HERE is sy erfdeel soos Hy hom beloof het.
3 En dit moet die reg van die priesters wees van die kant van die volk, van die wat 'n slagoffer bring, of dit 'n bees of 'n stuk kleinvee is: hulle moet aan die priester die blad en die twee kakebene en die maag gee.
4 Die eerstelinge van jou koring, jou mos en jou olie en die eerstelinge van die skeersel van jou kleinvee moet jy aan hom gee.
5 Want die HERE jou God het hom uit al jou stamme uitverkies, dat hy altyd kan staan om te dien in die Naam van die HERE, hy en sy seuns.
6 En as 'n Leviet uit een van jou poorte kom, uit die hele Israel waar hy as vreemdeling vertoef, en hy na hartelus kom na die plek wat die HERE sal uitkies,
7 dan moet hy dien in die Naam van die HERE sy God soos al sy broers, die Leviete, wat daar voor die aangesig van die HERE staan;
8 'n gelyke aandeel moet hulle geniet, behalwe wat hy verkoop volgens familiebesit.
9 As jy kom in die land wat die HERE jou God jou sal gee, moet jy nie leer om volgens die gruwels van daardie nasies te doen nie.
10 Daar mag niemand by jou gevind word wat sy seun of sy dogter deur die vuur laat deurgaan -- wat met waarsêery, goëlery of met verklaring van voortekens of towery omgaan nie,
11 of wat met besweringe omgaan, of wat 'n gees van 'n afgestorwene vra of 'n gees wat waarsê, of wat die dooies raadpleeg nie.
12 Want elkeen wat hierdie dinge doen, is vir die HERE 'n gruwel; en om hierdie gruwels ontwil verdryf die HERE jou God hulle voor jou uit.
13 Opreg moet jy wees met die HERE jou God.
14 Want hierdie nasies wat jy uit hulle besitting verdrywe, luister na goëlaars en waarsêers; maar wat jou aangaan, die HERE jou God het jou nie so iets toegelaat nie.
15 'n Profeet uit jou midde, uit jou broers, soos ek is, sal die HERE jou God vir jou verwek; na Hom moet julle luister --
16 net soos jy van die HERE jou God by Horeb gevra het toe jy op die dag van die vergadering gesê het: Ek kan die stem van die HERE my God nie langer hoor en hierdie groot vuur nie meer sien nie, anders sterf ek.
17 Toe het die HERE vir my gesê: Dit is goed wat hulle gespreek het.
18 'n Profeet sal Ek vir hulle verwek uit die midde van hulle broers, soos jy is, en Ek sal my woorde in sy mond lê, en Hy sal aan hulle sê alles wat Ek Hom beveel.
19 En die man wat nie luister na my woorde wat Hy in my Naam spreek nie, van hom sal Ek self rekenskap afeis.
20 Maar die profeet wat so vermetel is om 'n woord in my Naam te spreek wat Ek hom nie beveel het om te spreek nie, of wat in die naam van ander gode spreek, die profeet moet sterwe.
21 En as jy in jou hart sê: Hoe sal ons die woord weet wat die HERE nie gespreek het nie? --
22 as die profeet in die Naam van die HERE spreek, en wat hy gesê het, gebeur nie en kom nie uit nie, dan is dit die woord wat die HERE nie gespreek het nie; deur vermetelheid het die profeet dit gespreek; jy mag vir hom nie bang wees nie.
1 The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.
2 And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.
3 And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.
4 And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.
5 For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.
6 And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;
7 Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.
8 His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.
9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.
10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,
11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.
12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.
14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.
15 The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;
16 In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.
17 Then the Lord said to me, What they have said is well said.
18 I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.
19 And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.
20 But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.
21 And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?
22 When a prophet makes a statement in the name of the Lord, if what he says does not take place and his words do not come true, then his word is not the word of the Lord: the words of the prophet were said in the pride of his heart, and you are to have no fear of him.