1The Levitical priests — in fact, the whole tribe of Levi — are to have no portion 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 brothers. The LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
3This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice an ox or a sheep: the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.
4You are also to give the priests the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep.
5The LORD your God has chosen the tribe of Levi 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 to the place the LORD will choose with wholehearted desire,
7he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there before the LORD.
8He is to receive equal portions to eat, in addition to what he receives from the sale of his family's possessions.
9When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.
10Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his 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, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.
13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
14The nations you will drive out 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.
16This 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 or 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 ask, '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. Do not be afraid of him.