English Bible Presentation Sharing - Deuteronomy Book, chapter 18, verse 46 in Net Version

Deuteronomy 18 : 1 (NET)

The Levitical priests� indeed, the entire tribe of Levi� will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance.

Deuteronomy 18 : 2 (NET)

They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

Deuteronomy 18 : 3 (NET)

This shall be the priests' fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep� they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

Deuteronomy 18 : 4 (NET)

You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

Deuteronomy 18 : 5 (NET)

For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

Deuteronomy 18 : 6 (NET)

Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the LORD chooses

Deuteronomy 18 : 7 (NET)

and serves in the name of the LORD his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

Deuteronomy 18 : 8 (NET)

He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family's inheritance.

Deuteronomy 18 : 9 (NET)

When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

Deuteronomy 18 : 10 (NET)

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 18 : 11 (NET)

one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.

Deuteronomy 18 : 12 (NET)

Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 18 : 13 (NET)

You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 18 : 14 (NET)

Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the LORD your God has not given you permission to do such things.

Deuteronomy 18 : 15 (NET)

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you� from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18 : 16 (NET)

This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God: "Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die."

Deuteronomy 18 : 17 (NET)

The LORD then said to me, "What they have said is good.

Deuteronomy 18 : 18 (NET)

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

Deuteronomy 18 : 19 (NET)

I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

Deuteronomy 18 : 20 (NET)

"But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Deuteronomy 18 : 21 (NET)

Now if you say to yourselves, 'How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?'�

Deuteronomy 18 : 22 (NET)

whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him."