1 GLT The priests, the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the fire offerings of Yahweh as their inheritance. BSB BSB: 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 GLT And they shall have no inheritance among their brothers; Yahweh is their inheritance, as he spoke to them. BSB BSB: Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.
3 GLT And this is the ordinance of the priests, from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether an oxen or a sheep: and they shall give the shoulder and the two cheeks and the innards to the priest. BSB BSB: 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 GLT The firstfruits of your grain, your new wine and your oil and the first of the fleece of your sheep you shall give to him. BSB BSB: You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
5 GLT For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons, all of the days. BSB BSB: 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 GLT And if a Levite comes from one of your towns from all Israel where he is living there and desires with all his spirit to come to the place that Yahweh will choose, BSB BSB: 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 GLT then he shall serve in the name of Yahweh his God as all his brothers the Levites, who stand there before the face of Yahweh. BSB BSB: then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
8 GLT They shall eat portions alike portions, besides from the sale of his fathers. BSB BSB: They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
11 GLT or a maker of charms or a questioner of mediums or a conjurer of spirits or a seeker of the dead. BSB BSB: casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
12 GLT For all who do these{ are} an abomination{ to} Yahweh; and because of these abominations, Yahweh your God is driving them out from before your faces. BSB BSB: 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 GLT You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
14 GLT For these nations, those which you will dispossess, listen to sorcerers and to diviners; but you, thus Yahweh your God has not allowed you. BSB BSB: Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
16 GLT according to all that you asked from Yahweh your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying,‘We will not continue to hear the voice of Yahweh our God, and we will not see this great fire anymore or we will die.’ BSB BSB: 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 GLT And Yahweh said to me,‘What they have said is good. BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
19 GLT And it will happen, the man who does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name, I will require{ it} from him. BSB BSB: And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
22 GLT When a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, and the thing does not happen nor come to pass, it{ is} a word that Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it arrogantly; you shall not be afraid of him. BSB BSB: 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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