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.

1 Non habebunt sacerdotes et Levit, et omnes qui de eadem tribu sunt, partem et hreditatem cum reliquo Isral, quia sacrificia Domini, et oblationes ejus comedent, 2 et nihil aliud accipient de possessione fratrum suorum : Dominus enim ipse est hreditas eorum, sicut locutus est illis. 3 Hoc erit judicium sacerdotum a populo, et ab his qui offerunt victimas : sive bovem, sive ovem immolaverint, dabunt sacerdoti armum ac ventriculum : 4 primitias frumenti, vini, et olei, et lanarum partem ex ovium tonsione. 5 Ipsum enim elegit Dominus Deus tuus de cunctis tribubus tuis, ut stet, et ministret nomini Domini, ipse, et filii ejus in sempiternum. 6 Si exierit Levites ex una urbium tuarum ex omni Isral in qua habitat, et voluerit venire, desiderans locum quem elegerit Dominus, 7 ministrabit in nomine Domini Dei sui, sicut omnes fratres ejus Levit, qui stabunt eo tempore coram Domino. 8 Partem ciborum eamdem accipiet, quam et ceteri : excepto eo, quod in urbe sua ex paterna ei successione debetur.9 Quando ingressus fueris terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dabit tibi, cave ne imitari velis abominationes illarum gentium. 10 Nec inveniatur in te qui lustret filium suum, aut filiam, ducens per ignem : aut qui ariolos sciscitetur, et observet somnia atque auguria, nec sit maleficus, 11 nec incantantor, nec qui pythones consulat, nec divinos, aut qurat a mortuis veritatem. 12 Omnia enim hc abominatur Dominus, et propter istiusmodi scelera delebit eos in introitu tuo. 13 Perfectus eris, et absque macula cum Domino Deo tuo. 14 Gentes ist, quarum possidebis terram, augures et divinos audiunt : tu autem a Domino Deo tuo aliter institutus es. 15 Prophetam de gente tua et de fratribus tuis, sicut me, suscitabit tibi Dominus Deus tuus : ipsum audies, 16 ut petisti a Domino Deo tuo in Horeb, quando concio congregata est, atque dixisti : Ultra non audiam vocem Domini Dei mei, et ignem hunc maximum amplius non videbo, ne moriar. 17 Et ait Dominus mihi : Bene omnia sunt locuti. 18 Prophetam suscitabo eis de medio fratrum suorum similem tui : et ponam verba mea in ore ejus, loqueturque ad eos omnia qu prcepero illi. 19 Qui autem verba ejus, qu loquetur in nomine meo, audire noluerit, ego ultor existam. 20 Propheta autem qui arrogantia depravatus voluerit loqui in nomine meo, qu ego non prcepi illi ut diceret, aut ex nomine alienorum deorum, interficietur. 21 Quod si tacita cogitatione responderis : Quomodo possum intelligere verbum, quod Dominus non est locutus ? 22 hoc habebis signum : quod in nomine Domini propheta ille prdixerit, et non evenerit : hoc Dominus non est locutus, sed per tumorem animi sui propheta confinxit : et idcirco non timebis eum.