Chapter
18
The priests the Levites, even all the tribe of Levia, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and her inheritance.
They shall have no inheritance among their sisters: Yahweh is their inheritance, as she has spoken to them.
This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priestess the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give her.
For Yahweh your God has chosen her out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, her and her daughters for ever.
If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where she lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of her soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
then she shall minister in the name of Yahweh her God, as all her sisters the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of her matrimony.
When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
There shall not be found with you anyone who makes her daughter or her son to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.
You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophetess from the midst of you, of your sisters, like me; to her you shall listen;
according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.
Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a prophetess from among their sisters, like you; and I will put my words in her mouth, and she shall speak to them all that I shall command her.
It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which she shall speak in my name, I will require it of her.
But the prophetess, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded her to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophetess shall die.
If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?
when a prophetess speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophetess has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of her.