Deuteronomy 18:1-22 NET

[1] 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. [2] They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them. [3] 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. [4] 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. [5] For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently. [6] 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 [7] and serves in the name of the LORD his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD. [8] He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family's inheritance. [9] When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations. [10] 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, [11] one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer. [12] 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. [13] You must be blameless before the LORD your God. [14] 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. [15] 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. [16] 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 anymore or see this great fire anymore lest we die." [17] The LORD then said to me, "What they have said is good. [18] 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. [19] I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name. [20] "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. [21] Now if you say to yourselves, 'How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?'- [22] 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."