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You will also give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
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For ADONAI your God has chosen him from all your tribes to stand and serve in the name of ADONAI, him and his sons forever.
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"If a Levi from one of your towns anywhere in Isra'el where he is living comes, highly motivated, to the place which ADONAI will choose,
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then he will serve there in the name of ADONAI his God, just like his kinsmen the L'vi'im who stand and serve in the presence of ADONAI.
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Such a Levi will receive the same share as they do, in addition to what he may receive from selling his inherited ancestral property.
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"When you enter the land ADONAI your God is giving you, you are not to learn how to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
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There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through fire, a diviner, a soothsayer, an enchanter, a sorcerer,
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a spell-caster, a consulter of ghosts or spirits, or a necromancer.
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For whoever does these things is detestable to ADONAI, and because of these abominations ADONAI your God is driving them out ahead of you.
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You must be wholehearted with ADONAI your God.
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For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners; but you, ADONAI your God does not allow you to do this.