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The Portion of the Priests and Levites
1“The priests, the Levites—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 portion.
2Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He said to them.
3“And this shall be the priest’s ⚓due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.
4⚓The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
5For ⚓the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes ⚓to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons forever.
6“So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he ⚓dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind ⚓to the place which the Lord chooses,
7then he may serve in the name of the Lord his God ⚓as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord.
8They shall have equal ⚓portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.
Avoid Wicked Customs
9“When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, ⚓you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.
10There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter ⚓pass through the fire, ⚓or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
11⚓or ⚓one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
12For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and ⚓because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.
13You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.
14For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you.
A New Prophet Like Moses
15⚓“The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,
16according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb ⚓in the day of the assembly, saying, ⚓‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’
17“And the Lord said to me: ⚓‘What they have spoken is good.
18⚓I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and ⚓will put My words in His mouth, ⚓and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.
19⚓And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.
20But ⚓the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded 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 which the Lord has not spoken?’—
22⚓when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, ⚓if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it ⚓presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
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Feem uas faib rau cov pov thawj
1Cov Levi uas ua pov thawj yog xeem Levi huvsi yuav tsis muaj feem nrog cov Yixayee tau lub tebchaws ua qub txeeg qub teg. Lawv yuav tau noj tej uas muab hlawv xyeem rau Yawmsaub uas poob ua lawv tug.
2Lawv yuav tsis nrog lawv cov kwvtij muaj qub txeeg qub teg. Yawmsaub yog lawv li qub txeeg qub teg, raws li nws cog lus tseg rau lawv lawd.
3Thaum cov pejxeem coj tsiaj tuaj xyeem rau Yawmsaub tsis hais nyuj lossis yaj mas yuav tsum rho tej no ua cov pov thawj li feem, yog muab ceg pwg pu thiab cov nqaij ntawm ob sab plhu thiab lub plab rau tus pov thawj.
4Koj yuav muab thawj phaum qoob thiab cawv txiv hmab thiab roj thiab thawj phaum plaub yaj rau tus pov thawj.
5Rau qhov Yawmsaub uas yog koj tus Vajtswv tau xaiv Levi tawm hauv nej txhua xeem los sawv ntsug ua koom hauv Yawmsaub lub npe, tag nrho nws thiab nws caj ces mus ib txhis.
6Yog cov Levi leejtwg tawm ntawm lub moos twg uas nws nyob hauv cov Yixayee yuav tuaj rau lub chaw uas Yawmsaub yuav xaiv cia, nws kuj tuaj tau txhua lub sijhawm raws li nws xav tuaj,
7thiab nws yuav ua koom hauv nws tus Vajtswv Yawmsaub lub npe tau ib yam li nws cov kwvtij Levi sawvdaws uas sawv ntsug ua num rau ntawm Yawmsaub xubntiag.
8Nws yuav nrog lawv muaj feem tau noj sib npaug zos, tsis xam tej uas nws muag nws tej qhov txhia chaw es tau.
Tsis txhob teev dab
9Thaum koj mus rau hauv lub tebchaws uas koj tus Vajtswv Yawmsaub pub rau koj, koj tsis txhob xyaum ua tej kev qias vuab tsuab uas tej haiv neeg ntawd ua.
10Tsis txhob kheev koj cov ib tug twg muab nws tej tub tej ntxhais hlawv xyeem rau dab, tsis txhob kheev ib tug twg saib caij saib nyoog, saib yaig saib sij, ua txiv neeb thiab ntxooj dab,
11ua khawv koob, ua yees siv, lossis ua neeb hu tej tuag.
12Tus uas ua li no yog tus uas qias vuab tsuab rau Yawmsaub. Vim yog ua tej qias vuab tsuab no, koj tus Vajtswv Yawmsaub thiaj ntiab lawv khiav tawm ntawm koj hauv ntej mus.
13Koj yuav tsum ua tus uas tsis muaj chaw thuam li rau ntawm koj tus Vajtswv Yawmsaub xubntiag.
14Tej haiv neeg uas koj twb yuav muab ntiab kom khiav ntawd lawv ntseeg tej txiv neeb txiv yaig. Tiamsis koj li mas Yawmsaub uas yog koj tus Vajtswv tsis kheev koj ua li ntawd.
Tus cev lus yam li Mauxe
15Yawmsaub uas yog nej tus Vajtswv yuav tsa ib tug xibhwb cev lus zoo yam li kuv tshwm los hauv nej cov kwvtij, mas nej yuav tsum mloog nws lus.
16Yam li uas nej thov Yawmsaub uas yog nej tus Vajtswv ntawm Haule⚓ rau hnub uas nej tuaj txoos ua ke hais tias, “Tsis txhob cia peb tau hnov peb tus Vajtswv Yawmsaub lub suab lossis pom tej nplaim taws hlob kawg no dua li lawm tsam ces peb tuag.”
17Mas Yawmsaub hais rau kuv tias, “Qhov uas lawv hais li ntawd kuj zoo.
18Kuv yuav pub ib tug cev kuv li lus zoo ib yam li koj tshwm los hauv lawv cov kwvtij. Mas kuv yuav muab kuv tej lus rau hauv nws lub qhov ncauj, mas nws yuav hais txhua lo lus uas kuv kom nws hais ntawd rau lawv.
19Leejtwg tsis mloog kuv tej lus uas tus cev lus tuav kuv lub npe hais, kuv yuav rau txim rau tus ntawd.
20Tiamsis tus cev lus twg uas muaj cuabkav tuav kuv lub npe hais tej lus uas kuv tsis tau kom nws hais lossis tuav luag tej dab lub npe hais, mas tus uas cev lus ntawd yuav tuag.”
21Yog nej xav hauv lub siab tias, “Yuav ua li cas peb thiaj paub tej lus uas tsis yog Yawmsaub hais?”
22Yog thaum tus uas cev lus tuav Yawmsaub lub npe hais, yog tsis tshwm los muaj tseeb raws li nws hais, mas tej lus ntawd tsis yog Yawmsaub hais. Tus cev lus ntawd nws hais nws xwb, nej tsis txhob ntshai nws.