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If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
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he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the LORD.
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He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.
Occult Practices
9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
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Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
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or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
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Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD; because of these same detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.
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You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
The Prophet
14 The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
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The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
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For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”