Deuteronomy 18-20
The Message
18The Levitical priests—that's the entire tribe of Levi—don't get any land-inheritance with the rest of Israel. They get the Fire-Gift-Offerings of GOD—they will live on that inheritance.
3This is what the priests get from the people from any offering of an ox or a sheep： the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.
4You must also give them the firstfruits of your grain, wine, and oil and the first fleece of your sheep,
5because GOD, your God, has chosen only them and their children out of all your tribes to be present and serve always in the name of GOD, your God.
6If a Levite moves from any town in Israel—and he is quite free to move wherever he desires—and comes to the place GOD designates for worship,
7he may serve there in the name of GOD along with all his brother Levites who are present and serving in the Presence of GOD.
8And he will get an equal share to eat, even though he has money from the sale of his parents' possessions.
9When you enter the land that GOD, your God, is giving you, don't take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there.
10Don't you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don't practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery,
12People who do these things are an abomination to GOD. It's because of just such abominable practices that GOD, your God, is driving these nations out before you.
14These nations that you're about to run out of the country consort with sorcerers and witches. But not you. GOD, your God, forbids it.
15GOD, your God, is going to raise up a prophet for you. GOD will raise him up from among your kinsmen, a prophet like me. Listen obediently to him.
16This is what you asked GOD, your God, for at Horeb on the day you were all gathered at the mountain and said, "We can't hear any more from GOD, our God; we can't stand seeing any more fire. We'll die!"
18I'll raise up for them a prophet like you from their kinsmen. I'll tell him what to say and he will pass on to them everything I command him.
20"But any prophet who fakes it, who claims to speak in my name something I haven't commanded him to say, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die."
21You may be wondering among yourselves, "How can we tell the difference, whether it was GOD who spoke or not?" Here's how：
22If what the prophet spoke in GOD's name doesn't happen, then obviously GOD wasn't behind it; the prophet made it up. Forget about him.
19When GOD, your God, throws the nations out of the country that GOD, your God, is giving you and you settle down in their cities and houses,
2you are to set aside three easily accessible cities in the land that GOD, your God, is giving you as your very own.
3Divide your land into thirds, this land that GOD, your God, is giving you to possess, and build roads to the towns so that anyone who accidentally kills another can flee there.
4This is the guideline for the murderer who flees there to take refuge： He has to have killed his neighbor without premeditation and with no history of bad blood between them.
5For instance, a man goes with his neighbor into the woods to cut a tree; he swings the ax, the head slips off the handle and hits his neighbor, killing him. He may then flee to one of these cities and save his life.
6If the city is too far away, the avenger of blood racing in hot-blooded pursuit might catch him since it's such a long distance, and kill him even though he didn't deserve it. It wasn't his fault. There was no history of hatred between them.
8When GOD, your God, enlarges your land, extending its borders as he solemnly promised your ancestors, by giving you the whole land he promised them
9because you are diligently living the way I'm commanding you today, namely, to love GOD, your God, and do what he tells you all your life; and when that happens, then add three more to these three cities
10so that there is no chance of innocent blood being spilled in your land. GOD, your God, is giving you this land as an inheritance—you don't want to pollute it with innocent blood and bring bloodguilt upon yourselves.
11On the other hand, if a man with a history of hatred toward his neighbor waits in ambush, then jumps him, mauls and kills him, and then runs to one of these cities, that's a different story.
12The elders of his own city are to send for him and have him brought back. They are to hand him over to the avenger of blood for execution.
13Don't feel sorry for him. Clean out the pollution of wrongful murder from Israel so that you'll be able to live well and breathe clean air.
14Don't move your neighbor's boundary markers, the longstanding landmarks set up by your pioneer ancestors defining their property.
15You cannot convict anyone of a crime or sin on the word of one witness. You need two or three witnesses to make a case.
17then both parties involved in the quarrel must stand in the Presence of GOD before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.
18The judges must conduct a careful investigation; if the witness turns out to be a false witness and has lied against his fellow Israelite,
19give him the same medicine he intended for the other party. Clean the polluting evil from your company.
20People will hear of what you've done and be impressed; that will put a stop to this kind of evil among you.
21Don't feel sorry for the person： It's life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
20When you go to war against your enemy and see horses and chariots and soldiers far outnumbering you, do not recoil in fear of them; GOD, your God, who brought you up out of Egypt is with you.
3He'll say, "Attention, Israel. In a few minutes you're going to do battle with your enemies. Don't waver in resolve. Don't fear. Don't hesitate. Don't panic.
5Then let the officers step up and speak to the troops： "Is there a man here who has built a new house but hasn't yet dedicated it? Let him go home right now lest he die in battle and another man dedicate it.
6And is there a man here who has planted a vineyard but hasn't yet enjoyed the grapes? Let him go home right now lest he die in battle and another man enjoy the grapes.
7Is there a man here engaged to marry who hasn't yet taken his wife? Let him go home right now lest he die in battle and another man take her."
8The officers will then continue, "And is there a man here who is wavering in resolve and afraid? Let him go home right now so that he doesn't infect his fellows with his timidity and cowardly spirit."
9When the officers have finished speaking to the troops, let them appoint commanders of the troops who shall muster them by units.
11If they answer, "Yes, peace!" and open the city to you, then everyone found there will be conscripted as forced laborers and work for you.
14But don't kill the women and children and animals. Everything inside the town you can take as plunder for you to use and eat—GOD, your God, gives it to you.
15This is the way you deal with the distant towns, the towns that don't belong to the nations at hand.
16But with the towns of the people that GOD, your God, is giving you as an inheritance, it's different： don't leave anyone alive.
17Consign them to holy destruction： the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, obeying the command of GOD, your God.
18This is so there won't be any of them left to teach you to practice the abominations that they engage in with their gods and you end up sinning against GOD, your God.
19When you mount an attack on a town and the siege goes on a long time, don't start cutting down the trees, swinging your axes against them. Those trees are your future food; don't cut them down. Are trees soldiers who come against you with weapons?
20The exception can be those trees which don't produce food; you can chop them down and use the timbers to build siege engines against the town that is resisting you until it falls.
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