Old Testament · Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 18

Provision for Priests and Levites

(1 Corinthians 9:1–18)

1The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel; the fire-offerings of the LORD and His inheritance they shall eat. 2And he shall have no inheritance in the midst of his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as He has spoken to him.

3And this shall be the judgment^a of the priests from the people, from those who sacrifice the sacrifice, whether ox or sheep: he shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw. 4The firstfruit of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your flock, you shall give to him. 5For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, he and his sons all the days.

6And if a Levite comes from one of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and comes with all the desire of his soul^b to the place which the LORD chooses, 7then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, like all his brothers the Levites who stand there before the LORD. 8Portion like portion they shall eat, apart from his sales according to the fathers.

Sorcery Forbidden

(Acts 8:9–25)

9When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations. 10There shall not be found in you one who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who divines divinations, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 11or one who binds a binding-spell, or one who inquires of a ghost or a familiar spirit, or one who seeks to the dead. 12For an abomination of the LORD is everyone who does these things; and because of these abominations the LORD your God is dispossessing them from before you.

13You shall be blameless with the LORD your God. 14For these nations whom you are dispossessing hearken to soothsayers and to diviners; but you—not so has the LORD your God given to you.

A Prophet Like Moses

(Acts 3:11–26)

15A prophet from your midst, from your brothers, like me, the LORD your God will raise up for you; to him you shall hearken, 16according to all that you asked from the LORD your God at Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not again hear the voice of the LORD my God, and this great fire let me not see again, lest I die."

17And the LORD said to me, "They have done well in what they have spoken. 18A prophet I will raise up for them from the midst of their brothers, like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command^c him. 19And it shall be, the man^d who does not hear to My words which he speaks in My name, I Myself will require it of him. 20But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die."

21And if you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?"— 22that which the prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, and the thing is not, and does not come to pass, that is the word which the LORD has not spoken; in presumption the prophet has spoken it; you shall not be afraid of him.