7 then he may serve in the name of the Lord his God aas all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord.
8 They shall have equal aportions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.
Avoid Wicked Customs
9 “When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, ayou shall not learn to follow the1 abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter apass through the fire, bor one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
11 aor bone who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
12 For all who do these things are1 an abomination to the Lord, and abecause of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.
13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.
14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not1 appointed such for you.
A New Prophet Like Moses
15 a“The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,
16 according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb ain the day of the assembly, saying, b‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’
17 “And the Lord said to me: a‘What they have spoken is good.
18 aI will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and bwill put My words in His mouth, cand He shall speak to them all that I command Him.
19 aAnd it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.
20 But athe prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or bwho speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’
21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’—
22 awhen a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, bif the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it cpresumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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