Deuteronomy 1818DeuteronomyLaws for life in the landArabic Simplified Text

Arabic Simplified TextBerean Standard Bible

1. 1ARSTThe priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to Yahweh.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.
2. 2ARSTThey will not receive any land like the other tribes will. What they will receive is the honor of being Yahweh’ s priests, which is what he said that they should have.BSBBSB: Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.
3. 3ARSTWhen the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach of those animals.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.
4. 4ARSTYou must also give to them the first part of the grain that you harvest, the wine and olive oil that you make, and the wool that you shear from your sheep.BSBBSB: You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
5. 5ARSTYou must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes. He did this so that they would always be the priests who would serve him.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.
6. 6ARSTSuppose that a man from the tribe of Levi who has been living in one of the towns in Israel wants to live in the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen.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,
7. 7ARSTIn that case, he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.BSBBSB: then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
8. 8ARSTHe must receive the same amount of food that the other priests receive. He may keep the money that his relatives receive for selling some of their possessions{ and send to him}.BSBBSB: They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
9. 9ARSTWhen you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the people groups who are there now do.BSBBSB: When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
10. 10ARSTYou must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them{ on your altars}. Do not try to use magic or omens to discover what will happen in the future. Do not practice sorcery.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,
11. 11ARSTDo not put spells on people. Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people.BSBBSB: casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
12. 12ARSTYahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to drive out the people groups because they do those disgusting things.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.
13. 13ARSTBut you must be completely pure for Yahweh{ and avoid doing any of those disgusting things}.BSBBSB: You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
14. 14ARSTThe people groups that you are about to expel from the land rely on magicians and psychics. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.BSBBSB: Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
15. 15ARSTSome day he will send from your people a prophet like me. You must obey him.BSBBSB: The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
16. 16ARSTOn the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Mount Sinai, they begged me for help. They told me that they did not want Yahweh to speak to them again. They did not want to see the huge fire{ that burned on the mountain}. They were afraid that they would die if Yahweh spoke to them again.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!”
17. 17ARSTThen Yahweh said to me,‘I agree with them.BSBBSB: Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
18. 18ARSTSo I will send them a prophet from their people like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.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.
19. 19ARSTHe will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not obey what he says.BSBBSB: And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
20. 20ARSTThere could be someone who pridefully says that he is a prophet and that his message comes from me, but I did not send him. Or, there could be someone who speaks a message that he says other gods have revealed to him. You must execute those people.’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.”
21. 21ARSTMaybe you wonder how you can tell if a message that someone tells you does not come from Yahweh.BSBBSB: You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
22. 22ARSTYou will know that Yahweh did not send someone if what he said will happen in the future does not occur. That person spoke pridefully. Do not worry about what he said.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.

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