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Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 18

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Chapter 18 of Deuteronomy—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “No share or inheritance with Israel should come to belong to the priests, the Levites, the entire tribe of Leʹvi.1 The offerings made by fire of Jehovah, even his[a] inheritance, they should eat.2
  2. So no inheritance should come to belong to him in the midst of his brothers. Jehovah is his inheritance,3 just as he has spoken to him.
  3. ¶ “Now this should continue as the due right of the priests from the people, from the ones who sacrifice a victim, whether a bull or a sheep: One must give to the priest the shoulder blade and the jaws and the stomach.
  4. The first of your grain, your new wine and your oil and the first of the shorn wool of your flock you should give him.4
  5. For he is the one whom Jehovah[b] your God has chosen out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah,[c] he and his sons, always.5
  6. ¶ “And in case the Levite goes out of one of your cities of all Israel, where he had resided for a while,6 and he does come because of any craving of his soul to the place that Jehovah will choose,7
  7. he must also minister in the name of Jehovah[d] his God the same as all his brothers, the Levites, who are standing there before Jehovah.8
  8. An equal share he should eat,9 besides what he gets from things he sells of his ancestral goods.[e]
  9. ¶ “When you are entered into the land that Jehovah your God is giving you, you must not learn to do according to the detestable things of those nations.10
  10. There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire,11 anyone who employs divination,12 a practicer of magic13 or anyone who looks for omens14 or a sorcerer,15
  11. or one who binds others with a spell16 or anyone who consults a spirit medium[f]17 or a professional foreteller of events18 or anyone who inquires of the dead.19
  12. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah, and on account of these detestable things Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you.20
  13. You should prove yourself faultless with Jehovah your God.21
  14. ¶ “For these nations whom you are dispossessing used to listen to those practicing magic22 and to those who divine;23 but as for you, Jehovah your God has not given[g] you anything like this.24
  15. A prophet from your own midst, from your brothers, like me, is what Jehovah[h] your God will raise up for you—to him YOU people should listen25—
  16. in response to all that you asked of Jehovah[i] your God in Hoʹreb on the day of the congregation,26 saying, ‘Do not let me hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, and this great fire do not let me see anymore, that I may not die.’27
  17. At that Jehovah said to me, ‘They have done well in speaking what they did.28
  18. A prophet I shall raise up for them from the midst of their brothers, like you;29 and I shall indeed put my words in his mouth,30 and he will certainly speak to them all that I shall command him.31
  19. And it must occur that the man who will not listen to my words that he will speak in my name, I shall myself require an account from him.32
  20. ¶ “‘However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak33 or who speaks in the name of other gods,34 that prophet must die.35
  21. And in case you should say in your heart: “How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?”36
  22. when the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With presumptuousness the prophet spoke it.37 You must not get frightened at him.’38

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “His,” MSyVg; LXX, “their.”
  2. ^ “Jehovah.” Heb., Yehwahʹ. In the first-century B.C.E. papyrus fragment LXXP. Fouad Inv. 266 the Tetragrammaton appears in square Heb. characters in the Gr. text. See App 1C §1.
  3. ^ See App 1C §1.
  4. ^ See App 1C §1.
  5. ^ Lit., “besides the things he sells according to the forefathers.”
  6. ^ See Le 19:31 ftn.
  7. ^ Or, “allowed.”
  8. ^ See App 1C §1.
  9. ^ See App 1C §1.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Nu 18:24; De 10:9; Jos 13:33
  2. ^ Nu 18:8; Jos 13:14; 1Co 9:13
  3. ^ Nu 18:20
  4. ^ Ex 23:19; Nu 18:12; De 26:10; 2Ch 31:4; Ne 12:44
  5. ^ Ex 28:1; Nu 3:10; De 10:8; 17:12
  6. ^ Nu 35:2
  7. ^ De 12:5; 16:2; Ps 26:8
  8. ^ 2Ch 31:2
  9. ^ Le 7:10; Lu 10:7; 1Ti 5:18
  10. ^ Le 18:26; De 12:30
  11. ^ Le 18:21; De 12:31; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ch 28:3; Ps 106:37; Je 19:5; 32:35
  12. ^ 2Ki 17:17; Ac 16:16
  13. ^ Le 19:26; Ac 19:19
  14. ^ Eze 21:21
  15. ^ Ex 22:18
  16. ^ Is 47:9
  17. ^ Le 20:27; 1Ch 10:13
  18. ^ Le 19:31; 2Ch 33:6
  19. ^ 1Sa 28:3, 11; Is 8:19; Ga 5:20
  20. ^ Le 18:24; De 9:4
  21. ^ 2Sa 22:24; Ps 37:18; Mt 5:48; 2Pe 3:14
  22. ^ Le 19:26; 2Ki 21:2, 6
  23. ^ Jos 13:22
  24. ^ Ps 147:20; Ac 14:16
  25. ^ Ge 49:10; Nu 24:17; Lu 7:16; 24:19; Jn 1:45; 6:14; Ac 3:22; 7:37
  26. ^ Ex 19:17; De 9:10
  27. ^ Ex 20:19
  28. ^ De 5:28
  29. ^ Ex 34:28; Nu 12:3; Ml 3:1; Mt 4:2; 11:29; Lu 24:27, 44; Jn 5:46
  30. ^ Jn 8:28; 17:8
  31. ^ Jn 12:49; 15:15; Heb 1:2
  32. ^ Ac 3:23
  33. ^ De 13:1; Je 14:14; 28:11; Eze 13:6; Mt 7:15
  34. ^ De 13:2; 1Ki 18:19; Je 23:13
  35. ^ De 13:5; Je 27:15; Zc 13:3
  36. ^ 1Jo 4:1
  37. ^ Je 28:15
  38. ^ Pr 29:25

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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