14 “When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ^z‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you may indeed set a king over you ^awhom the Lord your God will choose. One ^bfrom among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only he must not acquire many ^chorses for himself or cause the people ^dto return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ^e‘You shall never return that way again.’ 17 And he ^fshall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, ^gnor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, ^hhe shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, ⁱapproved by¹ the Levitical priests. 19 And ^jit shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, ^kthat he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he ^lmay not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, ^mso that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.

1 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, ⁿshall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They ^oshall eat the Lord’s food offerings² as their³ 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: ^pthey shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. 4 ^qThe firstfruits 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 chosen him out of all your tribes ^rto 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, ^swhere he lives—and he may come when he desires⁴—^tto the place that the Lord will choose, 7 and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, ^ulike all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord, 8 then he may have equal ^vportions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.⁵

9 “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, ^wyou shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone ^xwho burns his son or his daughter as an offering,⁶ anyone who ^ypractices divination or ^ztells fortunes or interprets omens, or ^aa sorcerer 11 or a charmer or ^ba medium or a necromancer or ^cone who inquires of the dead, 12 ^dfor whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And ^ebecause 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.

15 ^f“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 ^gon the day of the assembly, when you said, ^h‘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, ⁱ‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18 ^fI will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. ^jAnd I will put my words in his mouth, and ^khe shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 ^lAnd whoever will ^mnot listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 ⁿBut the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or⁷ who speaks in the name of other gods, that 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 ^owhen 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; ⁿthe prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.