3. This shall be the priest’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be an ox or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.
4. You must give him the first fruit of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep also.
5. For 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 forever.
6. If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place where the Lord shall choose,
7. then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord.
8. They must have the same portions to eat, besides any profits he may receive from the sale of his father’s inheritance.
9. When you enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you must not learn to practice the abominations of those nations.
10. There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or uses witchcraft, or an interpreter of omens, or a sorcerer,
11. or one who casts spells, or a spiritualist, or an occultist, or a necromancer.
12. For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God will drive them out from before you.
13. You must be blameless before the Lord your God.
14. For these nations, which you shall possess, listened to soothsayers and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so.