Deuteronomii 18

1 Non habebunt sacerdotes et Levitæ, et omnes qui de eadem tribu sunt, partem et hereditatem cum reliquo Israel, quia sacrificia Domini, et oblationes eius comedent,

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 et nihil aliud accipient de possessione fratrum suorum: Dominus enim ipse est hereditas eorum, sicut locutus est illis.

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brothers: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has said to them.

3 Hoc erit iudicium sacerdotum a populo, et ab his qui offerunt victimas: sive bovem, sive ovem immolaverint, dabunt sacerdoti armum ac ventriculum:

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 to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

4 primitias frumenti, vini, et olei, et lanarum partem ex ovium tonsione.

The first fruit also of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.

5 Ipsum enim elegit Dominus Deus tuus de cunctis tribubus tuis, ut stet, et ministret nomini Domini ipse, et filii eius in sempiternum.

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 for ever.

6 Si exierit Levites ex una urbium tuarum ex omni Israel in qua habitat, et voluerit venire, desiderans locum quem elegerit Dominus,

And if a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;

7 ministrabit in nomine Domini Dei sui, sicut omnes fratres eius Levitæ, qui stabunt eo tempore coram Domino.

Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.

8 Partem ciborum eamdem accipiet, quam et ceteri: excepto eo, quod in urbe sua ex paterna ei successione debetur.

They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.

9 Quando ingressus fueris Terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dabit tibi, cave ne imitari velis abominationes illarum gentium.

When you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

10 Nec inveniatur in te qui lustret filium suum, aut filiam, ducens per ignem: aut qui ariolos sciscitetur, et observet somnia atque auguria, nec sit maleficus,

There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

11 nec incantantor, nec qui pythones consulat, nec divinos, aut quærat a mortuis veritatem.

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12 Omnia enim hæc abominatur Dominus, et propter istiusmodi scelera delebit eos in introitu tuo.

For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.

13 Perfectus eris, et absque macula cum Domino Deo tuo.

You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.

14 Gentes istæ, quarum possidebis terram, augures et divinos audiunt: tu autem a Domino Deo tuo aliter institutus es.

For these nations, which you shall possess, listened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you so to do.

15 PROPHETAM de gente tua et de fratribus tuis sicut me, suscitabit tibi Dominus Deus tuus: ipsum audies,

The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the middle of you, of your brothers, like to me; to him you shall listen;

16 ut petisti a Domino Deo tuo in Horeb, quando concio congregata est, atque dixisti: Ultra non audiam vocem Domini Dei mei, et ignem hunc maximum amplius non videbo, ne moriar.

According to all that you desired of the LORD your 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 Et ait Dominus mihi: Bene omnia sunt locuti.

And the LORD said to me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

18 Prophetam suscitabo eis de medio fratrum suorum similem tui: et ponam verba mea in ore eius, loqueturque ad eos omnia quæ præcepero illi.

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brothers, like to you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

19 Qui autem verba eius, quæ loquetur in nomine meo, audire noluerit, ego ultor existam.

And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

20 Propheta autem qui arrogantia depravatus voluerit loqui in nomine meo, quæ ego non præcepi illi ut diceret, aut ex nomine alienorum deorum, interficietur.

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 Quod si tacita cogitatione responderis: Quo modo possum intelligere verbum, quod Dominus non est locutus?

And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?

22 Hoc habebis signum: Quod in nomine Domini propheta ille prædixerit, et non evenerit: hoc Dominus non est locutus, sed per tumorem animi sui propheta confinxit: et idcirco non timebis eum.

When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.