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Deuteronomy 18:6-16

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6 "And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, 1where he lives--and he may come when he desires[a]--2to the place that the LORD will choose,
7 and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, 3like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD,
8 then he may have equal 4portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.[b]

Abominable Practices

9 "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, 5you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you anyone 6who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[c] anyone who 7practices divination or 8tells fortunes or interprets omens, or 9a sorcerer
11 or a charmer or 10a medium or a necromancer or 11one who inquires of the dead,
12 12for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And 13because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you.
13 You shall be blameless before the LORD your God,
14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.

A New Prophet like Moses

15 14"The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers--it is to him you shall listen--
16 just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb 15on the day of the assembly, when you said, 16'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'
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Deuteronomy 18:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 18

This chapter gives an account of the provision made for the priests and Levites, with the reason of it, De 18:1-5, of allowance of a country Levite to minister at Jerusalem, and take his portion with the rest, De 18:6-8, and of several persons of bad practices not to be suffered among the people of Israel, De 18:9-14, and of an extraordinary prophet that should be raised up among them, to whom they should hearken, or it would be the worse for them, De 18:15-19, but a false prophet was to be put to death, of whom a sign is given by which he might be known, De 18:20-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

  • 1. Numbers 35:2, 3; Judges 17:7; Judges 19:1
  • 2. See Deuteronomy 12:5
  • 3. [1 Chronicles 23:6; 2 Chronicles 31:2]
  • 4. 2 Chronicles 31:4; Nehemiah 12:44, 47; Nehemiah 13:10
  • 5. Deuteronomy 12:29-31; See Leviticus 18:26-30
  • 6. See Leviticus 18:21
  • 7. 2 Kings 17:17
  • 8. See Leviticus 19:26
  • 9. [Exodus 22:18]
  • 10. See Leviticus 19:31
  • 11. [1 Samuel 28:7]
  • 12. Deuteronomy 22:5; Deuteronomy 25:16
  • 13. See Deuteronomy 9:4
  • 14. John 1:21, 25, 45; Cited Acts 3:22; Acts 7:37
  • 15. See Deuteronomy 9:10
  • 16. See Exodus 20:19

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or lives - if he comes enthusiastically
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  • [c]. Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.