Deuteronomy 18

1 not to be to/for priest [the] Levi all tribe Levi portion and inheritance with Israel food offering LORD and inheritance his to eat [emph?]

“The 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 be burned [on the altar to be sacrificed] to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.

2 and inheritance not to be to/for him in/on/with entrails: among brother: compatriot his LORD he/she/it inheritance his like/as as which to speak: promise to/for him

They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the work/privilege of being Yahweh’s [priests], which is what he said that they should have.

3 and this to be justice: custom [the] priest from with [the] people from with to sacrifice [the] sacrifice if cattle if sheep and to give: give to/for priest [the] arm and [the] jaw and [the] stomach

“When the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks/jaws, and the stomach of those animals.

4 first: beginning grain your new wine your and oil your and first: beginning fleece flock your to give: give to/for him

You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you [harvest], and the first part of the wine [that you make], and the first part of the [olive] oil [that you make], and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.

5 for in/on/with him to choose LORD God your from all tribe your to/for to stand: stand to/for to minister in/on/with name LORD he/she/it and son: descendant/people his all [the] day

You must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes, in order that men [from that tribe] would always be the priests who would serve him.

6 and for to come (in): come [the] Levi from one gate: town your from all Israel which he/she/it to sojourn there and to come (in): come in/on/with all desire soul: appetite his to(wards) [the] place which to choose LORD

“If any man from the tribe of Levi [who has been living] in one of the towns in Israel wants to come from there to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen, [and start living there],

7 and to minister in/on/with name LORD God his like/as all brother: compatriot his [the] Levi [the] to stand: stand there to/for face: before LORD

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.

8 portion like/as portion to eat to/for alone: besides sale his upon [the] father

He must be given the same amount of food [that the other priests receive]. He is permitted to keep the money [that his relatives give him] for selling some of their possessions.

9 for you(m. s.) to come (in): come to(wards) [the] land: country/planet which LORD God your to give: give to/for you not to learn: learn to/for to make: do like/as abomination [the] nation [the] they(masc.)

When 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.

10 not to find in/on/with you to pass son: child his and daughter his in/on/with fire to divine divination to divine and to divine and to practice sorcery

You must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them [on your altars]. Do not practice (divination/using supernatural power to reveal [what will happen in] the future). Do not do/practice (soothsaying/magic to find out what will happen in the future). Do not (interpret omens/say that because of something that you have seen you know what will happen). Do not practice sorcery/witchcraft. Do not practice (putting spells on people/saying things to cause bad things to happen to others).

11 and to unite spell and to ask medium and spiritist and to seek to(wards) [the] to die

Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.

12 for abomination LORD all to make: do these and in/on/with because of [the] abomination [the] these LORD God your to possess: take [obj] them from face: before your

Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to expel the people-groups because they do/practice those disgusting things.

13 unblemished: blameless to be with LORD God your

But you must always avoid doing any of those things.

14 for [the] nation [the] these which you(m. s.) to possess: take [obj] them to(wards) to divine and to(wards) to divine to hear: hear and you(m. s.) not so to give: allow to/for you LORD God your

The people-groups that you are about to expel [from the land that you will occupy] (consult/seek advice from) soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.

15 prophet from entrails: among your from brother: compatriot your like me to arise: establish to/for you LORD God your to(wards) him to hear: hear [emph?]

[Some day] he will send from among you a prophet like me. [He is the one who will tell you what will happen in the future], and he is the one whom you must heed.

16 like/as all which to ask from from with LORD God your in/on/with Horeb in/on/with day [the] assembly to/for to say not to add: again to/for to hear: hear [obj] voice LORD God my and [obj] [the] fire [the] great: large [the] this not to see: see still and not to die

On the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Sinai Mountain, they pleaded with me saying, ‘We do not want Yahweh to speak [MTY] to us again, and we do not want to see this huge fire [that is burning on the mountain]!’ [Your ancestors said that because they were afraid] that they would die [if Yahweh spoke to them again].

17 and to say LORD to(wards) me be good which to speak: speak

Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.

18 prophet to arise: establish to/for them from entrails: among brother: compatriot their like you and to give: put word my in/on/with lip his and to speak: speak to(wards) them [obj] all which to command him

So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.

19 and to be [the] man which not to hear: hear to(wards) word my which to speak: speak in/on/with name my I to seek from from with him

He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.

20 surely [the] prophet which to boil to/for to speak: speak word in/on/with name my [obj] which not to command him to/for to speak: speak and which to speak: speak in/on/with name God another and to die [the] prophet [the] he/she/it

But if any other [person says that he is a] prophet [and] dares to speak a message which he falsely says comes from me but which I did not tell him to speak, or if anyone who speaks a message that he says other gods [MTY] have revealed to him, he must be executed [for doing that].’

21 and for to say in/on/with heart your how? to know [obj] [the] word which not to speak: speak him LORD

But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’

22 which to speak: speak [the] prophet in/on/with name LORD and not to be [the] word and not to come (in): come he/she/it [the] word which not to speak: speak him LORD in/on/with arrogance to speak: speak him [the] prophet not to dread from him

[The answer is that] when someone speaks a message [about what will happen in the future], a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, [you will know that] the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of [anything that] he [says].”