Deuteronomy, Chapter 18, King James Bible

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Deuteronomy, chapter eighteen. The priest, the Levites, and all the
tribe of Levi shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel.
They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by
fire and his inheritance. Therefore shall they have no inheritance
among their brethren. The Lord is their inheritance, as he

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hath said unto them. And this shall be the priest
due from the people from them that offer a sacrifice,
whether it be ox or sheep. And they shall give
unto the Priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and
the maw, the first fruit, also of thy corn, of
thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first to
the fleece of thy sheep. Shalt thou give him. For

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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 sons forever. And if a
Levite come from any of thy gates, out of all
Israel where he sojourned, and come with all the desire
business mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose,
then he shall minister in the name of the Lord

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his God, as all his brethren. The Levites do, which
stand there before the Lord, they shall have like portions
to eat, beside that which cometh to the sale of
his patrimony. When thou art come into the land which
the Lord thy God giveth THEE, thou shalt not learn
to do after the abominations of those nations. They shall

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not be found among you any one that maketh his
son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or
that useth a divination, or an observer of times, or
an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a
consultor with familiar spirits, or a wizard or a necromancer.
For all that do these things are an abomination unto

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the Lord. And because of these abominations, the Lord thy
God doth drive them out from before THEE. Thou shalt
be perfect with the Lord thy God. For these nations
which thou shalt possess, hearken unto observers of times and
unto diviners. But as for THEE, the Lord thy God
hath not suffered THEE. So to do the Lord thy

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God will raise up unto THEE a prophet from the
midst of thee of thy brethren, like unto me. Unto him,
ye shall hearken according to all that thou desirest of
the Lord, thy God in horrib in the day of
the Assembly, saying, let me not hear again the voice
of the Lord my God, neither let me see this
great fire any more, that I die not. And the

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Lord said, unto me, they have well spoken that which
they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet
from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put
my words in his mouth. And he shall speak unto
them all that I shall command him. And it shall
come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto my

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words which he shall speak in my name, I will
require it of him. But the prophet which shall presume
to speak a word in my life name which I
have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak
in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, how shall we

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know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When
a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if
the thing follow not nor come to pass, that is
the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the
prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, Thou shalt not be afraid
of him,