Deuteronomy 18:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

for the Lord your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the Lord's name always.

Deuteronomy 18:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the Lord will choose,

Deuteronomy 18:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

Deuteronomy 18:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,

Deuteronomy 18:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.

Deuteronomy 18:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 18:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so.

Deuteronomy 18:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die."

Deuteronomy 18:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.

Deuteronomy 18:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 18)

You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?"

Deuteronomy 19:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

When the Lord your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,

Deuteronomy 19:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.

Deuteronomy 19:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three cities.

Deuteronomy 19:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your ancestors, and gives you the whole land he promised them,

Deuteronomy 19:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today-to love the Lord your God and to walk always in obedience to him-then you are to set aside three more cities.

Deuteronomy 19:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

Deuteronomy 19:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

Show no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 19:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 19)

The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.

Deuteronomy 20:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.

Deuteronomy 20:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army.