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The priests, the Levites, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor allotment with Israel; the offerings by fire of the Lord are their allotment, they shall eat them.
And this is the ordinance of the priests, the things from the people, from those who sacrifice the sacrifices, whether a calf or a sheep: he shall give to the priest the shoulder and the jaws and the stomach.
For the Lord your God chose him out of all your tribes to stand before the Lord your God, to minister and to bless in his name, he and his sons among the sons of Israel.
But if the Levite comes from one of your cities, from all the sons of Israel where he sojourns, according as his soul desires, to the place which the Lord may choose,
There shall not be found among you anyone who purifies his son or his daughter in fire, one who practices divination, one who uses omens and augury, a sorcerer,
For everyone who does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God; for because of these abominations the Lord will utterly destroy them from before you.
according to all that you asked of the Lord your God at Choreb on the day of the assembly, saying: Let us not again hear the voice of the Lord our God, and let us not see this great fire any more, lest we die.
I will raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers like you, and I will put my word in his mouth, and he shall speak to them according to all that I command him.
But the prophet who acts impiously by speaking in my name a word which I did not command him to speak, and whoever speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
Whatever the prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, and the word does not come to pass and does not happen, this is the word which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken in impiety, you shall not spare him.