Liber Deuteronomii, 18

1. Non habebunt sacerdotes le vitae, omnis tribus Levi, par tem et hereditatem cum reliquo Israel; de sacrificiis Domini et hereditate eius comedent

1. "The Levitical priests, that is, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings by fire to the LORD, and his rightful dues.

2. et nihil accipient de possessione fratrum suorum: Dominus enim ipse est hereditas eorum, sicut locutus est illis.

2. They shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.

3. Hoc erit ius sacerdotum a populo, ab his qui offerunt victimas: sive bovem sive ovem immolaverint, dabunt sacerdoti armum et duas maxillas ac ventriculum,

3. And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

4. primitias frumenti, vini et olei et lanarum ex ovium tonsione.

4. The first fruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

5. Ipsum enim elegit Dominus Deus tuus de cunctis tribubus tuis, ut stet et ministret in nomine Domini ipse et filii eius in sempiternum.

5. For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

6. Si exierit Levites de una urbium tuarum ex omni Israel, in qua ut advena habitat, et voluerit venire desiderans locum, quem elegerit Dominus,

6. "And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives -- and he may come when he desires -- to the place which the LORD will choose,

7. ministrabit in nomine Domini Dei sui, sicut omnes fratres eius levitae, qui stabunt ibi coram Domino.

7. then he may minister in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD.

8. Partem ciborum eandem accipiet quam et ceteri, excepto eo, quod ex paterna ei successione debetur.

8. They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.

9. Quando ingressus fueris terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dabit tibi, cave, ne imitari velis abominationes illarum gentium.

9. "When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

10. Nec inveniatur in te, qui filium suum aut filiam traducat per ignem, aut qui sortes sciscitetur et observet nubes atque auguria, nec sit maleficus

10. There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,

11. nec incantator, nec qui pythones consulat nec divinos, aut quaerat a mortuis veritatem;

11. or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12. omnia enim haec abominatur Dominus et propter istiusmodi scelera expellet eos in introitu tuo.

12. For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD; and because of these abominable practices the LORD your God is driving them out before you.

13. Perfectus eris et absque macula cum Domino Deo tuo.

13. You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.

14. Gentes istae, quarum possidebis terram, augures et divinos audiunt; tu autem a Domino Deo tuo aliter institutus es.

14. For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, give heed to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.

15. Prophetam de gente tua et de fratribus tuis sicut me suscitabit tibi Dominus Deus tuus; ipsum audietis,

15. "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren -- him you shall heed --

16. ut petiisti a Domino Deo tuo in Horeb, quando contio congregata est, atque dixisti: “Ultra non audiam vocem Domini Dei mei et ignem hunc maximum amplius non videbo, ne moriar”.

16. just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, `Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'

17. Et ait Dominus mihi: “Bene omnia sunt locuti;

17. And the LORD said to me, `They have rightly said all that they have spoken.

18. prophetam suscitabo eis de medio fratrum suorum similem tui et ponam verba mea in ore eius, loqueturque ad eos omnia, quae praecepero illi.

18. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

19. Qui autem verba mea, quae loquetur in nomine meo, audire noluerit, ego ultor exsistam.

19. And whoever will not give heed to my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.

20. Propheta autem qui, arrogantia depravatus, voluerit loqui in nomine meo, quae ego non praecepi illi ut diceret, aut ex nomine alienorum deorum, interficietur”.

20. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.'

21. Quod si tacita cogitatione responderis: “Quomodo possum intellegere verbum, quod Dominus non est locutus?”,

21. And if you say in your heart, `How may we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?' --

22. hoc habebis signum: quod in nomine Domini propheta ille praedixerit, et non evenerit, hoc Dominus non est locutus, sed per tumorem animi sui propheta confinxit; et idcirco non timebis eum.

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 which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him.