Deuteronomy 18 – Studienbibel

1 The priests, the Levites, and the whole tribe of Levi, will have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: Jehovah’s offerings by fire, and his inheritance shall they eat,

2 but they will have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah, he is their inheritance, as he has said unto them.

3 And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from them that sacrifice a sacrifice, whether ox, or sheep: they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the jawbones, and the maw.

4 The firstfruits also of ŷour corn, of ŷour new wine, and of ŷour oil, and the firstfruits of the shearing of ŷour sheep, shall ŷou give him;

5 for Jehovah ŷour God has chosen him out of all ŷour tribes, that he may stand to serve in the name of Jehovah, he and his sons continually.

6 And if the Levite will come from one of ŷour gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and will come according to all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah will choose,

7 and will serve in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites that stand there before Jehovah,

8 —they shall have like portions to eat, besides that which he has sold of his patrimony.

9 When ŷou are come into the land which Jehovah ŷour God gives ŷou, ŷou shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

10 There shall not be found among you he that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, that uses divination, that uses auguries, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

11 or a charmer, or one that inquires of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consults the dead.

12 For every one that does these things is an abomination to Jehovah, and because of these abominations Jehovah ŷour God does dispossess them from before ŷou.

13 Ŷou shall be perfect with Jehovah ŷour God.

14 For these nations, which ŷou will dispossess, listened unto those that use auguries, and that use divination; but as for ŷou, Jehovah ŷour God has not allowed ŷou to do so.

15 Jehovah ŷour God will raise up unto ŷou a prophet from the midst of ŷou, of ŷour brethren, like unto me; unto him shall you listen; [Apg 7,37]

16 according to all that ŷou desired of Jehovah ŷour God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

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

18 A prophet will I raise up unto them from among their brethren, like unto ŷou, and will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak unto them all that I will command him. [Apg 3,22-23]

19 And it will come to pass that the man who listens not unto my words which he will speak in my name, I will require it of him.

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

21 And if ŷou say in ŷour heart, How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?

22 When a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah, and the thing follows not, nor comes to pass, that is the word which Jehovah has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: be not afraid of him.