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Derechos de los sacerdotes levitas

18 »Los sacerdotes levitas, es decir, todos los de la tribu de Leví, no tendrán parte ni herencia como los demás israelitas. Tendrán que mantenerse de los sacrificios que se ofrecen al Señor, y de lo que a él le corresponde. No recibirán herencia como sus compatriotas, ya que su herencia es el Señor, como él lo ha dicho.

»Los derechos que los sacerdotes tienen sobre los sacrificios de toros o corderos ofrecidos por la gente, son los siguientes: les tocará la espaldilla, la quijada y el cuajar, y también los primeros frutos de trigo, vino y aceite, y la primera lana que se corte a las ovejas; pues el Señor su Dios los ha elegido a ellos, de entre todas las tribus, para que de padres a hijos tengan siempre a su cargo el culto al Señor.

»Cuando un levita de alguna población de ustedes, de cualquier lugar de Israel, se sienta movido a venir al lugar escogido por el Señor, podrá oficiar allí como sacerdote en el nombre del Señor, lo mismo que todos sus compañeros levitas que están allí sirviendo al Señor, y recibirá la misma porción de alimentos que ellos reciben, además de lo que obtenga de la herencia de su padre.

Advertencias contra prácticas paganas

»Cuando hayan entrado ustedes en el país que el Señor su Dios les va a dar, no imiten las horribles costumbres de esas naciones. 10 Que nadie de ustedes ofrezca en sacrificio a su hijo haciéndolo pasar por el fuego, ni practique la adivinación, ni pretenda predecir el futuro, ni se dedique a la hechicería 11 ni a los encantamientos, ni consulte a los adivinos y a los que invocan a los espíritus, ni consulte a los muertos. 12 Porque al Señor le repugnan los que hacen estas cosas. Y si el Señor su Dios arroja de la presencia de ustedes a estas naciones, es precisamente porque tienen esas horribles costumbres. 13 Ustedes deben ser perfectos en su relación con Dios. 14 Esas naciones, cuyo territorio van ustedes a poseer, hacen caso a los que pretenden predecir el futuro y a los adivinos, pero a ustedes el Señor su Dios no les permite semejante cosa.

El profeta que ha de venir

15 »El Señor su Dios hará que salga de entre ustedes un profeta como yo, y deberán obedecerlo. 16 Esto es en realidad lo que ustedes pidieron al Señor su Dios en el monte Horeb, el día en que todos se reunieron allí y dijeron: “No queremos oír otra vez la voz del Señor nuestro Dios, ni ver este gran fuego, para no morir.” 17 Entonces el Señor me dijo: “Está bien lo que han dicho. 18 Yo haré que salga de entre ellos un profeta como tú, uno que sea compatriota de ellos y que les diga lo que yo le ordene decir, y les repita lo que yo le mande. 19 A todo aquel que no haga caso de lo que ese profeta diga en mi nombre, yo le pediré cuentas. 20 Pero el profeta que presuma de hablar en mi nombre y diga algo que yo no le haya mandado decir, o hable en nombre de otros dioses, será condenado a muerte.” 21 Y si ustedes piensan: “¿Cómo podremos saber que lo que se ha dicho no es la palabra del Señor?”, deben tener esto en cuenta: 22 Si lo que el profeta ha dicho en nombre del Señor no se cumple, es señal de que el Señor no lo dijo, sino que el profeta habló movido sólo por su orgullo; por lo tanto, no le tengan miedo.

Provision for Priests and Levites

18 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, (A)shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They (B)shall eat the Lord's food offerings[a] as their[b] inheritance. They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: (C)they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. (D)The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes (E)to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.

“And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, (F)where he lives—and he may come when he desires[c](G)to the place that the Lord will choose, and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, (H)like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, then he may have equal (I)portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.[d]

Abominable Practices

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, (J)you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone (K)who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[e] anyone who (L)practices divination or (M)tells fortunes or interprets omens, or (N)a sorcerer 11 or a charmer or (O)a medium or a necromancer or (P)one who inquires of the dead, 12 (Q)for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And (R)because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.

A New Prophet like Moses

15 (S)“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb (T)on the day of the assembly, when you said, (U)‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ 17 And the Lord said to me, (V)‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18 (W)I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. (X)And I will put my words in his mouth, and (Y)he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 (Z)And whoever will (AA)not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 (AB)But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or[f] who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 (AC)when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; (AD)the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:1 Or the offerings by fire to the Lord
  2. Deuteronomy 18:1 Hebrew his
  3. Deuteronomy 18:6 Or lives—if he comes enthusiastically
  4. Deuteronomy 18:8 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  5. Deuteronomy 18:10 Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
  6. Deuteronomy 18:20 Or and

18 The priests 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 hath said unto them.

And this shall be the priest's 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 firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

For 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 for ever.

And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose;

Then he shall minister in the name of the Lord 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 of 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.

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

15 The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

16 According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb 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.

17 And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

18 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.

19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

22 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.