Liber Deuteronomii

Deuteronomii, chapter 18, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 18 Vulgate

   1 Non habebunt sacerdotes le vitae, omnis tribus Levi, par tem et hereditatem cum reliquo Israel; de sacrificiis Domini et hereditate eius comedent
   2 et nihil accipient de possessione fratrum suorum: Dominus enim ipse est hereditas eorum, sicut locutus est illis.
   3 Hoc erit ius sacerdotum a populo, ab his qui offerunt victimas: sive bovem sive ovem immolaverint, dabunt sacerdoti armum et duas maxillas ac ventriculum,
   4 primitias frumenti, vini et olei et lanarum ex ovium tonsione.
   5 Ipsum enim elegit Dominus Deus tuus de cunctis tribubus tuis, ut stet et ministret in nomine Domini ipse et filii eius in sempiternum.
   6 Si exierit Levites de una urbium tuarum ex omni Israel, in qua ut advena habitat, et voluerit venire desiderans locum, quem elegerit Dominus,
   7 ministrabit in nomine Domini Dei sui, sicut omnes fratres eius levitae, qui stabunt ibi coram Domino.
   8 Partem ciborum eandem accipiet quam et ceteri, excepto eo, quod ex paterna ei successione debetur.
   9 Quando ingressus fueris terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dabit tibi, cave, ne imitari velis abominationes illarum gentium.
   10 Nec inveniatur in te, qui filium suum aut filiam traducat per ignem, aut qui sortes sciscitetur et observet nubes atque auguria, nec sit maleficus
   11 nec incantator, nec qui pythones consulat nec divinos, aut quaerat a mortuis veritatem;
   12 omnia enim haec abominatur Dominus et propter istiusmodi scelera expellet eos in introitu tuo.
   13 Perfectus eris et absque macula cum Domino Deo tuo.
   14 Gentes istae, quarum possidebis terram, augures et divinos audiunt; tu autem a Domino Deo tuo aliter institutus es.
   15 Prophetam de gente tua et de fratribus tuis sicut me suscitabit tibi Dominus Deus tuus; ipsum audietis,
   16 ut petiisti a Domino Deo tuo in Horeb, quando contio congregata est, atque dixisti: "Ultra non audiam vocem Domini Dei mei et ignem hunc maximum amplius non videbo, ne moriar"
   17 Et ait Dominus mihi: "Bene omnia sunt locuti;
   18 prophetam suscitabo eis de medio fratrum suorum similem tui et ponam verba mea in ore eius, loqueturque ad eos omnia, quae praecepero illi.
   19 Qui autem verba mea, quae loquetur in nomine meo, audire noluerit, ego ultor exsistam.
   20 Propheta autem qui, arrogantia depravatus, voluerit loqui in nomine meo, quae ego non praecepi illi ut diceret, aut ex nomine alienorum deorum, interficietur"
   21 Quod si tacita cogitatione responderis: "Quomodo possum intellegere verbum, quod Dominus non est locutus?"
   22 hoc habebis signum: quod in nomine Domini propheta ille praedixerit, et non evenerit, hoc Dominus non est locutus, sed per tumorem animi sui propheta confinxit; et idcirco non timebis eum.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 The 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.
   2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   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;
   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.
   8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
   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.
   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,
   11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
   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.
   13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
   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.
   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;
   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.
   17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
   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.
   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.
   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.
   21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
   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.