Provision for Priests and Levites
1 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have dno portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord’s food offerings1 as their2 inheritance. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. 3 And this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. 4 The efirstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 5 For the Lord your God has fchosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.
6 “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, gwhere he lives—and he may come when he desires3—to the place that the Lord will choose, 7 and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, 8 then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.4
Abominable Practices
9 h“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to ifollow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who jburns his son or his daughter as an offering,5 anyone who kpractices divination or ltells fortunes or interprets omens, or a msorcerer 11 or a charmer or a nmedium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And obecause of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 pYou 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 q“The Lord your God will raise up for you a rprophet like me from among you, from your brothers—sit is to him you shall listen— 16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, t‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ 17 And the Lord said to me, u‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and vhe shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or6 who speaks in the name of other gods, wthat same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
Jesus Walks on the Water
22 cImmediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, dhe went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, 24 but the boat by this time was a long way1 from the land,2 beaten by the waves, for the wind was against them. 25 And in the fourth watch of the night3 he came to them, ewalking on the sea. 26 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a fghost!” and they cried out in fear. 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; git is I. Do not be afraid.”
28 And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” 29 He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind,4 he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” 31 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, hwhy did you doubt?” 32 And when they got into the boat, the wind iceased. 33 And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the jSon of God.”
Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret
34 kAnd when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret. 35 And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick 36 and implored him that they might only ltouch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.
