A reading from the Book of Deuteronomy.

The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel.

They shall eat the Lord's food offerings as their inheritance.

They shall have no inheritance among their brothers.

The Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.

And this shall be the priests do from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an

ox or a sheep. They shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the

stomach. The first fruits of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the two cheeks and the stomach. The first fruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil,

and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. 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 all time.

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 that the Lord will choose,

and ministers in the name of the Lord His God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the

Lord, then he may have equal portions to eat besides what he receives from the sale of his

patrimony. When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not

learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering.

Anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens or a sorcerer or a charmer,

or a medium, or a necromancer, or one who inquires of the dead.

For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations,

the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, for these nations which

you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord

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