1 The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, are to have no share or inheritance with Israel. They are to live on the food offerings of the LORD, which are his inheritance.
2 They will have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD himself is their inheritance, as he told them.
3 This is what is due to the priests from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep: the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach are to be given to the priest.
4 Give him the firstfruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first wool you shear from your sheep.
5 For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and serve in the name of the LORD for all time.
6 If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes because he earnestly desires to come to the place the LORD will choose,
7 he may serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
8 They are to share alike in the food, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.
9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.
10 Let no one be found among you who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or who practices divination or fortune-telling, or interprets omens, or practices sorcery,
11 or casts spells, or consults a medium or a spiritist, or seeks answers from the dead.
12 Everyone who does such things is detestable to the LORD, and it is because of these detestable practices that the LORD your God is driving those nations out before you.
13 You must be wholehearted with the LORD your God.
14 These nations you are about to dispossess pay attention to fortune-tellers and diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
16 This is just what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, "Let me not hear the voice of the LORD my God again or see this great fire any more, or I will die."
17 Then the LORD said to me, "What they have said is good.
18 I will raise up for them from among their brothers a prophet like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
19 If anyone will not listen to my words that he speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.
20 But a prophet who dares to speak in my name a word I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die."
21 You may say in your heart, "How can we recognize a word that the LORD has not spoken?"
22 If what a prophet says in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a word the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it arrogantly; do not be afraid of him.