Deuteronomy
Chapter 18
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1The priests, the Levites, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no share or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the food gifts of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and his inheritance.
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Ishei Yahweh are the food gifts of Yahweh.
2He shall have no inheritance among his brothers. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is his inheritance, as he spoke to him.
3This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who sacrifice the sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep. He shall give the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.
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Zeroa is the shoulder. Lechayayim is the two cheeks. Qevah is the stomach.
4The first of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first of the shearing of your flock, you shall give to him.
5For God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the name of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., he and his sons, all the days.
6When a Levite comes from one of your gates, from all Israel, where he is a A person living in a land that is not their own., and he comes with all the craving of his life to the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. chooses,
7and he serves in the name of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. his God, like all his brothers the Levites who stand there before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.,
8they shall eat a portion like a portion, apart from his sales on the fathers.
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Mimkarav al ha-avot is his sales on the fathers. The line does not say what was sold. The words are printed as they stand.
9When you come into the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you, you shall not learn to do like the abominations of those nations.
10There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who practices A way of trying to learn hidden things by signs., a soothsayer, one who looks for an A sign that someone reads to tell what will happen., or a sorcerer,
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Qosem qesamim practices divination. Me’onen is printed soothsayer. The line does not define that craft. Menachesh looks for an omen. Mekhashef is a sorcerer.
11or one who ties a binding, or one who asks a ghost or a knowing spirit, or one who inquires of the dead.
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Chover chaver ties a binding. Ov is a ghost. Yidde’oni is a knowing spirit. Doresh el ha-metim inquires of the dead.
12For anyone who does these things is an Something God hates and will not accept. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and because of these abominations God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is dispossessing them from before you.
13You shall be whole with God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
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Tamim is whole, complete.
14For these nations that you are dispossessing listen to soothsayers and to People who try to learn hidden things by signs., but as for you, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has not given you so.
15A prophet from your midst, from your brothers, like me, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will raise up for you. You shall listen to him.
16This is according to all that you asked from God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not keep hearing the voice of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. my God, and this great fire let me not see anymore, so that I do not die.
17And God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to me, They have done well in what they have spoken.
18A prophet I will raise up for them from among their brothers, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
19And it shall be, the man who does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name, I myself will require it of him.
20But the prophet who acts in presumption, to speak a word in my name that I did not command him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
21And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. did not speak?
22What the prophet speaks in the name of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and the word is not so, and it does not come, that is the word that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. did not speak. The prophet spoke it in presumption. You shall not dread him.