Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 191

DEUTERONOMY. as I said to you ; therefore there shall enquiry of spirits, or f0re—tellers, or you will drive out, listened to cloud- selves to the EVER-LIVING, your Gon. Evmzrxvme Gon, at Horeb on the be decreed for the priests something from each sacrifice sacrifzed by the people, whether ox or sheep. There shall be given to the priest the fore leg, jaws, and breast. You shall give to them the first-fruits of your com also; the first-fruits of your oil; and the fxrst fleece of your flock. For your EvEn—mvmo Gon chose them from all your tribes to stand to serve to the Name of the Evmz—r.1vmG, they, and their children for all time. And when a. Levite comes to one of

your villages, in any part of Israel, although he isa. stranger there, and comes from any village where he formerly lived, he may serve to the Name of the Even-Lrvzne, his Goo, like all his brothers who are fixed there in the Presence of the EvER·· LIVING. They shall eat share and share alike, of equal value on account of their ancestry. When you enter the country that

your Even-Lxvme Gon has given you, you shall not learn the depravié ties of those heathens. You shall not take with you your son or daughter to a throwing over a fire, to divinations, and enchantments, or for witchcraft, or incantations, or questioning the dead ;·———for the EVER- LIVING loathes all these practices; and to sweep away all these practices your Evan-Lrvme Goo has driven them from before you. You must be perfect before your EvER~L1v1NG Gon ;—for those heathens, whom makers, and to diviners,-·but you must not,--consequently give your· Your Evmz—L1v1Nc; Gon will raise

up ‘a Prophet like me for you from among your brothers, after me; listen to him.

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18 IO II 16 that he may not turn from its com- mands to the rightor to the left; so that he may extend his days in his kingship, he and his sons in the circuit of Israel. There shall be no share or inheri·

tance to the Levitical Priests or any of the tribe of Levi with Israel. The Even-LIVING is their inheritance and feeder; therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the EVER-LIVING is their inheritance, You all requested one from your ‘We cannot continue to hear the voice of the Evmzrivmc Gon, nor longer to see this great fire, for fear When the Evan-Lrvxnc What they have said is good. I will raise for them, from amongst their brothers, ONE LIKE YOU; and will put words into his mouth, and he shall report to them all I command them. And any man who will not listen to the messages which he delivers in MY NAME, I will drive out from My People. ‘But the Prophet who shall pre-

sume to deliver a message in MY N AME, which I have not commanded him to deliver, or who shall speak in the name of other gods :·— that Prophet shall die! But perhaps you may say in your

How can I distinguish such a message as what the EvzR·LIvING has not spoken? When the Prophet delivered it in the Name of the EvER—LIv1Nc;,———·although he was not commanded ? ’ When the event does not happen, then the Evmeuvmc has not

spoken. The Prophet has spoken it, in his presumption ;-~fear him not. 18 20 2I 22

When your Evan-mvmo Gon has 19 destroyed those heathen. of whom your Evan-1:.1vmo Gon has given you the country, and has driven them out, and you dwell in their cities and their houses, you shall separate three cities to yourselves in themidst of the country that your EvER~L1\/ING GOD gives you to possess. You shall then make roads for your use to these three cities, from the boundaries of the country which your Evan-LIVING GOD has divided amongst you, so that any man—slayer‘ can fly to them. However, this is the kind of man- slayer who may fly there and live ; he who has struck his neighbour un· intentionally, when he did not pre— viously hate him.-·For instance one who went with his neighbour to a wood to cut timber, andthe iron flew from the handle of the axe in cutting the timber; or the iron flew from the tree and caught his neighbour, and he dies. I-Ie may fly to one of these cities, and live, lest the Avenger of 6 Blood pursue after the man—slayer, whilst his heart is hot, and overtake him, owing to the length of the way, and deprive him of life, before he has been condemned to death,-—for he