Deuteronomy 1818DeuteronomyLaws for life in the landAmerican King James Version

American King James VersionBerean Standard Bible

1. Provision for Priests and Levites

   (1 Corinthians 9:1–18)

2. 1AKJVThe priests the Levites, and 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 inheritance.BSBBSB: The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance.
3. 2AKJVTherefore shall they have no inheritance among their brothers: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has said to them.BSBBSB: Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.
4. 3AKJVAnd 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 to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.BSBBSB: This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.
5. 4AKJVThe first fruit also of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.BSBBSB: You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
6. 5AKJVFor 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 for ever.BSBBSB: For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
7. 6AKJVAnd if a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;BSBBSB: Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
8. 7AKJVThen he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.BSBBSB: then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
9. 8AKJVThey shall have like portions to eat, beside that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.BSBBSB: They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.

10. Sorcery Forbidden

    (Acts 8:9–25)

11. 9AKJVWhen you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.BSBBSB: When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
12. 10AKJVThere shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.BSBBSB: Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
13. 11AKJVOr a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.BSBBSB: casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
14. 12AKJVFor all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.BSBBSB: For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
15. 13AKJVYou shall be perfect with the LORD your God.BSBBSB: You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
16. 14AKJVFor these nations, which you shall possess, listened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you so to do.BSBBSB: Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

17. A Prophet Like Moses

    (Acts 3:11–26)

18. 15AKJVThe LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the middle of you, of your brothers, like to me; to him you shall listen;BSBBSB: The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
19. 16AKJVAccording to all that 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, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.BSBBSB: This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
20. 17AKJVAnd the LORD said to me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.BSBBSB: Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
21. 18AKJVI will raise them up a Prophet from among their brothers, like to you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.BSBBSB: I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
22. 19AKJVAnd it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.BSBBSB: And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
23. 20AKJVBut 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.BSBBSB: But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
24. 21AKJVAnd if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?BSBBSB: You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
25. 22AKJVWhen a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.BSBBSB: When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.