Deuteronomy 18

New American Standard Bible

Portion for the Levites

18 “^(A)The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall not have a portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the Lord’s offerings by fire and His ^[a]property. ²^(B)They shall not have an inheritance among their countrymen; the Lord is their inheritance, as He ^[b]promised them.

³“^(C)Now this shall be the priests’ portion from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep: they shall give the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach. ⁴You shall give him the ^(D)first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep. ⁵^(E)For the Lord your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to ^(F)stand to serve in the name of the Lord always.

⁶“Now if a Levite comes from any of your ^[c]towns throughout Israel where he ^(G)resides, and he comes ^[d]whenever he desires to the place which the Lord chooses, ⁷then he shall serve in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord. ⁸^(H)They shall eat ^[e]equal portions, except for what they receive from the sale of their fathers’ estates.

Spiritism Forbidden

⁹“When you enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to ^[f]^(I)imitate the detestable things of those nations. ¹⁰There shall not be found among you anyone ^(J)who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, a ^(K)soothsayer, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, ¹¹or one who casts a spell, ^(L)or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead. ¹²For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and ^(M)because of these detestable things the Lord your God is going to drive them out before you. ¹³^(N)You are to be blameless before the Lord your God. ¹⁴For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to ^(O)soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

¹⁵“^(P)The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen; to him you shall listen. ¹⁶This is ^(Q)in accordance with everything that you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Do not let me hear the voice of the Lord my God again, and do not let me see this great fire anymore, or I will die!’ ¹⁷And ^(R)the Lord said to me, ‘They have ^[g]spoken well. ¹⁸I will raise up for them a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and ^(S)I will put My words in his mouth, and ^(T)he shall speak to them everything that I command him. ¹⁹^(U)And it shall come about that whoever does not listen to My words which he speaks in My name, I Myself will ^[h]require it of him. ²⁰But the prophet who speaks a word ^(V)presumptuously in My name, a word which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^(W)which he speaks in the name of other gods, ^[i]that prophet shall die.’ ²¹And if you say in your heart, ‘How will we recognize the word which the Lord has not spoken?’ ²²^(X)When the prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, and the thing does not happen or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it ^(Y)presumptuously; you are not to be afraid of him.

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 18:1 Or inheritance
Deuteronomy 18:2 Lit spoke to
Deuteronomy 18:6 Lit gates
Deuteronomy 18:6 Lit with all the desire of his soul
Deuteronomy 18:8 Lit portion like portion
Deuteronomy 18:9 Lit do as
Deuteronomy 18:17 Lit done well what they have spoken
Deuteronomy 18:19 I.e., hold him responsible
Deuteronomy 18:20 Lit then that

Psalm 105

New American Standard Bible

The Lord’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.

105 ^(A)Give thanks to the Lord, ^(B)call upon His name;
^(C)Make His deeds known among the peoples.
²Sing to Him, ^(D)sing praises to Him;
^[a]^(E)Tell of all His ^[b]wonders.
³Boast in His holy name;
May the ^(F)heart of those who seek the Lord be joyful.
⁴Seek the Lord and ^(G)His strength;
^(H)Seek His face continually.
⁵Remember His ^[c]^(I)wonders which He has done,
His marvels and the ^(J)judgments ^[d]spoken by His mouth,
⁶You ^[e]descendants of ^(K)Abraham, His servant,
You sons of ^(L)Jacob, His ^(M)chosen ones!
⁷He is the Lord our God;
His ^(N)judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has ^(O)remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a ^(P)thousand generations,
⁹The ^(Q)covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His ^(R)oath to Isaac.
¹⁰Then He ^(S)confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹Saying, “^(T)To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the ^[f]^(U)portion of your inheritance,”
¹²When they were only a ^(V)few people in number,
Very few, and ^(W)strangers in it.
¹³And they wandered from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴He ^(X)allowed no one to oppress them,
And He ^[g]^(Y)rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,
¹⁵“^(Z)Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do not harm My prophets.”

¹⁶And He ^(AA)called for a famine upon the land;
He ^(AB)broke the whole staff of bread.
¹⁷He ^(AC)sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was ^(AD)sold as a slave.
¹⁸They forced his ^(AE)feet into shackles,
^[h]He was put in irons;
¹⁹Until the time that his ^(AF)word came to pass,
The word of the Lord ^(AG)refined him.
²⁰The ^(AH)king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.
²¹He ^(AI)made him lord of his house,
And ruler over all his possessions,
²²To ^[i]imprison his high officials ^[j]^(AJ)at will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
²³^(AK)Israel also came into Egypt;
So Jacob ^(AL)lived in the land of Ham.
²⁴And He ^(AM)made His people very fruitful,
And made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵He ^(AN)turned their heart to hate His people,
To ^(AO)deal cunningly with His servants.
²⁶He ^(AP)sent His servant Moses,
And ^(AQ)Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷They ^[k]^(AR)performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸He ^(AS)sent darkness and made it dark;
And they did not ^(AT)rebel against His words.
²⁹He ^(AU)turned their waters into blood,
And caused their fish to die.
³⁰Their land swarmed with ^(AV)frogs
Even in the ^(AW)chambers of their kings.
³¹He spoke, and a ^(AX)swarm of flies
And ^(AY)gnats invaded all their territory.
³²He ^[l]gave them ^(AZ)hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
³³He also ^(BA)struck their vines and their fig trees,
And smashed the trees of their territory.
³⁴He spoke, and ^(BB)locusts came,
And creeping locusts, beyond number,
³⁵And they ate all the vegetation in their land,
And ate the fruit of their ground.
³⁶He also ^(BC)fatally struck all the firstborn in their land,
The ^(BD)first fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷Then He brought ^[m]the Israelites out with ^(BE)silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.
³⁸Egypt was ^(BF)glad when they departed,
For the ^(BG)dread of them had fallen upon ^[n]the Egyptians.
³⁹He spread out a ^(BH)cloud as a ^[o]covering,
And ^(BI)fire to illumine by night.
⁴⁰^[p]They ^(BJ)asked, and He brought ^(BK)quail,
And satisfied them with the ^[q]^(BL)bread of heaven.
⁴¹He opened the ^[r]rock and ^(BM)water flowed out;
^[s]It ran in the dry places like a river.
⁴²For He ^(BN)remembered His holy word
With His servant Abraham;
⁴³And He led out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful ^(BO)shout.
⁴⁴He also ^(BP)gave them the lands of the ^[t]nations,
So that they ^(BQ)might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,
⁴⁵And that they might ^(BR)keep His statutes
And comply with His laws;
^[u]Praise ^[v]the Lord!