18Deuteronomy 18

CHAP. XVIII. / 1 The Lord is the Priests and Leuites inheritance. 3 The Priests due. 6 The Leuites portion. 9 The abominations of the Nations are to bee auoyded. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard.

1The Priests, the Leuites, and all the tribe of Leui, shall haue no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eate the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.Select Deuteronomy 18:1

2Therefore shall they haue no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said vnto them.Select Deuteronomy 18:2

3And this shalbe the Priests due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it bee oxe or sheepe: and they shall giue vnto the Priest the shoulder, and the two cheekes, and the maw.Select Deuteronomy 18:3

4The first fruit also of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thy oyle, and the first of the fleece of thy sheepe, shalt thou giue him.Select Deuteronomy 18:4

5For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the Name of the Lord, him, and his sonnes for euer.Select Deuteronomy 18:5

6And if a Leuite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he soiourned, and come with all the desire of his minde, vnto the place which the Lord shall choose;Select Deuteronomy 18:6

7Then hee shall minister in the Name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Leuites doe, which stand there before the Lord.Select Deuteronomy 18:7

8They shall haue like portions to eate, beside that which commeth of the sale of his patrimonie.Select Deuteronomy 18:8

9When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to doe after the abominations of those nations.Select Deuteronomy 18:9

10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his sonne, or his daughter to passe thorow the fire, or that vseth diuination, or an obseruer of times, or an inchanter, or a witch,Select Deuteronomy 18:10

11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wyzard, or a Necromancer.Select Deuteronomy 18:11

12For all that do these things, are an abomination vnto the Lord: and because of these abominations, the Lord thy God doth driue them out from before thee.Select Deuteronomy 18:12

13Thou shalt bee perfite with the Lord thy God.Select Deuteronomy 18:13

14For these nations which thou shalt possesse, hearkened vnto obseruers of times, and vnto diuiners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to doe.Select Deuteronomy 18:14

15The Lord thy God will raise vp vnto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like vnto me, vnto him ye shall hearken,Select Deuteronomy 18:15

16According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let mee not heare again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let mee see this great fire any more, that I die not.Select Deuteronomy 18:16

17And the Lord said vnto mee, They haue well spoken that which they haue spoken.Select Deuteronomy 18:17

18I will raise them vp a Prophet from among their brethren, like vnto thee, and will put my wordes in his mouth, and hee shall speake vnto them all that I shall command him.Select Deuteronomy 18:18

19And it shall come to passe, that whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my words, which hee shall speake in my name, I will require it of him.Select Deuteronomy 18:19

20But the prophet which shall presume to speake a word in my name, which I haue not commanded him to speake, or that shall speake in the name of other gods, euen that prophet shall die.Select Deuteronomy 18:20

21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall wee know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?Select Deuteronomy 18:21

22When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to passe, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not bee afraid of him.Select Deuteronomy 18:22