Deuteronomy 18 (NET)

Deuteronomy 18:1¹The 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:9Num 18:8-91 Cor 9:13-14Deut 12:19Josh 13:14Josh 13:33Num 18:20Num 26:621 Pet 5:2-4

Deuteronomy 18:2²They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:51 Pet 2:9Gen 15:1Isa 61:6Lam 3:24Ps 119:57Ps 16:5Ps 73:24-26Ps 84:11Rev 1:5-6

Deuteronomy 18:3³This 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 7:30-34Deut 12:27

Deuteronomy 18:4⁴You 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 31:4-10Exod 22:29Exod 23:19Lev 23:10Lev 23:17Neh 12:44-47Num 18:12-24Deut 26:9-10Job 21:20

Deuteronomy 18:5⁵For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:8Num 3:10Deut 17:12Exod 28:1-14Num 16:5Num 16:9-10Num 17:5-9Num 25:13

Deuteronomy 18:6⁶Suppose 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 choosesCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 35:2-3Deut 12:51 Pet 5:21 Tim 3:1Deut 16:2Ps 26:8Ps 27:4Ps 63:1-2Ps 84:10Ps 84:5

Deuteronomy 18:7⁷and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 31:2-4

Deuteronomy 18:8⁸He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 12:44Neh 12:472 Chr 31:4Luke 10:71 Cor 9:7-141 Tim 5:17-18Lev 7:14Lev 7:8-9

Deuteronomy 18:9⁹When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:29-31Lev 18:26-27Lev 18:30

Deuteronomy 18:10¹⁰There 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,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:31Exod 22:18Lev 19:262 Chr 33:6Acts 19:19Deut 12:311 Chr 10:131 Sam 28:92 Chr 28:32 Kgs 16:3

Deuteronomy 18:11¹¹one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 28:11-14Lev 19:31

Deuteronomy 18:12¹²Whoever 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 18:24Deut 9:4Lev 18:27

Deuteronomy 18:13¹³You must be blameless before the Lord your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:48Gen 17:1Gen 6:9Job 1:1Job 1:8Phil 3:12Ps 37:37Phil 3:15Rev 3:2

Deuteronomy 18:14¹⁴Those 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 14:16Deut 18:10Gen 20:6Ps 147:19-20

Deuteronomy 18:15¹⁵The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you—from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:22-23Acts 7:37John 1:45Deut 18:18-19Heb 1:1-2Luke 9:35Matt 17:51 Tim 2:5John 6:29Luke 24:19

Deuteronomy 18:16¹⁶This 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 20:19Deut 5:23-28Deut 9:10Heb 12:19

Deuteronomy 18:17¹⁷The Lord then said to me, “What they have said is good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:28

Deuteronomy 18:18¹⁸I 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:15John 12:49-50John 8:28John 4:25Luke 24:19John 17:8Mal 3:1Isa 51:16John 1:45John 15:15

Deuteronomy 18:19¹⁹I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:22-23Heb 2:3Heb 12:25-26Heb 10:26Heb 3:7Mark 16:16

Deuteronomy 18:20²⁰“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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 13:1-5Jer 27:15Ezek 13:6Jer 23:13-15Jer 23:31Jer 28:15-17Matt 7:15Zech 13:3Jer 14:14-151 Kgs 18:27

Deuteronomy 18:21²¹Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:1-31 Thess 5:24Rev 2:2

Deuteronomy 18:22²²whenever 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:202 Kgs 20:1Jer 28:1-17Deut 13:1-2Jonah 4:2Zech 1:5-6Isa 41:22Prov 26:2Jonah 3:4