Today is the first day of April.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian.

It's good to be here with you today around the global campfire,

reading in Deuteronomy 18 through 20.

The Levitical priests, in fact the whole tribe of Levi will receive no land or property of their own like the rest of the Israelites.

They will eat what has been sacrificed to the Lord.

These sacrifices will be what they receive, so the Levites will have no

land of their own like the other Israelites. The Lord will be their inheritance as he promised

them. This is what the people owe the priests whenever

they sacrifice an ox, a sheep, or a goat, the shoulder, jaws, and stomach.

Also give them the first produce harvested,

grain, new wine, olive oil, and the first wool

you shear from your sheep.

Out of all your tribes, the Lord your God has chosen the Levites and their descendants to do the work of serving in the name of the Lord forever.

A Levite from any of your cities in Israel may come from where he has been living to the place the Lord will choose.

He may come as often as he wants and may serve in the name of the Lord his God like all the other Levites who do their work in the Lord's

presence. If he does, he'll get the same amount of food as they do, in addition to what he

gets from selling his family's goods.

When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, never learn the disgusting

practices of those nations.

You must never sacrifice your sons or daughters by burning them alive.

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