1,2 The LORD is the priests and Levites' inheritance 3-5 The priests' due 6-8 The Levites' portion 9-14 The abominations of the nations are to be avoided 15-19 Christ the Prophet is to be heard 20-22 The presumptuous prophet is to die

shall have De 10:9 12:19 Nu 18:20 26:62 Jos 13:33 18:7 1Pe 5:2-4

they shall Nu 18:8,9 Jos 13:14 1Co 9:13,14

2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

the Lord Ge 15:1 Ps 16:5 73:24-26 84:11 119:57 Isa 61:6 La 3:24 1Pe 2:5,9 Re 1:5,6

3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

offer a sacrifice De 12:27 Le 7:30-34

4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

first-fruit De 26:9,10 Ex 22:29 23:19 Le 23:10,17 Nu 18:12-24 Ne 12:44-47

the fleece Job 21:20

5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

De 10:8 17:12 Ex 28:1 Nu 3:10 16:5,9,10 17:5-9 25:13

6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

come Nu 35:2,3

and come with Ps 26:8 27:4 63:1,2 84:5,10 1Ti 3:1 1Pe 5:2

unto the place

7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.

as all his brethren 2Ch 31:2-4

8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

like portions Le 7:8,9,14 Ne 12:44,47 Lu 10:7 1Co 9:7-14 1Ti 5:17,18

that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony [heb] his sales by the fathers.

9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

De 12:29-31 Le 18:26,27,30

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

maketh De 12:31 Le 18:21 20:2-5 2Ki 16:3 17:17 21:6 2Ch 28:3 Ps 106:37,38 Jer 19:4-6 32:35

that useth divination The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained: he {that useth divination, kosaim, kesamim}, seems a {general} term for the various species after specified; {observer of times, meonin}, one who pretends to foretell by the {clouds, planets, etc.} {enchanter menachesh, a diviner, either by means of {serpents}, or by inspecting the entrails of beasts, the flight of birds, etc.; {a witch, mecashsheph,} one who used magical {fumigations}; {a charmer, chover chaver}, one who uses spells, or a peculiar conjunction of words, or tying knots, etc.; {a consulter with familiar spirits, shoel ov, a pythoness; a wizard, yidoni, a cunning man; necromancer, doresh el hammaithim} one who {seeks} enquiries of the dead. Ex 22:18 Le 19:26,31 20:26,27 1Sa 28:3,7,9 1Ch 10:13 2Ch 33:6 Isa 8:19,20 47:13 Ac 19:19 Ga 5:20

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

or a necromancer 1Sa 28:11-14

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

De 9:4 Le 18:24,27

13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Thou shalt Ge 6:9 17:1 Job 1:1,8 Ps 37:37 Mt 5:48 Php 3:12,15 Re 3:2

perfect. or, upright, or, sincere

14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

possess. or, inherit
hath not suffered De 18:10 Ge 20:6 Ps 147:19,20 Ac 14:16

15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

a Prophet De 18:18,19 Joh 1:45 Ac 3:22,23 7:37

like unto me De 5:5 34:10 Lu 24:19 1Ti 2:5 Heb 1:1,2 2:1-3 3:2-6

unto him Mt 17:5 Lu 9:35 10:16 Joh 6:29 Heb 1:2 1Jo 3:23

16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

in Horeb De 9:10

Let me not hear De 5:24-28 Ex 20:19 Heb 12:19

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

De 5:28

18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

raise them De 18:15 Joh 1:45

like unto De 5:5 33:5 Ex 40:26-29 Nu 12:6-8,13 Ps 2:6 110:4 Isa 9:6,7 Zec 6:12,13 Mal 3:1 Lu 24:19 Ga 3:19,20 1Ti 2:5 Heb 3:2-6 7:22 12:24,25

will put Isa 50:4 51:16 Joh 17:18

he shall Joh 4:25 8:28 12:49,50 15:15

19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Mr 16:16 Ac 3:22,23 Heb 2:3 3:7 10:26 12:25,26

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

the prophet De 13:1-5 Jer 14:14,15 23:13-15,31 27:15 Eze 13:6 Mt 7:15 2Pe 2:12

in the name De 13:1,2 1Ki 18:19,27,40 Jer 2:8 28:15-17 Zec 13:3 Re 19:20

21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

1Th 5:24 1Jo 4:1-3 Re 2:2

22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

speaketh Isa 41:22 Jer 28:1-14

if the thing De 13:2 2Ki 20:1 Jon 3:4 4:2 Zec 1:5,6

presumptuously De 18:20 Jer 28:15-17

shall not Pr 26:2