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Deuteronomy 18:5-10 English Standard Version (ESV)

5. For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.

6. “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires—to the place that the Lord will choose,

7. and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord,

8. then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.

9. “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

10. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer

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