3. When you offer a bull or sheep as a sacrifice, you must share with the priests. Give them the shoulder, the cheeks and the inner organs.
4. Give them the first of your grain, new wine and oil. Give them the first wool you cut from your sheep.
5. The Lord your God has chosen the priests and their descendants out of all your tribes. They are to stand and serve the Lord always.
6. A Levite might move from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he lives. He is sincere and comes to the place the Lord will choose.
7. He may serve the Lord his God. He will be like his fellow Levites who serve there before the Lord.
8. They all will have an equal share of the food. This is separate from what he has received from the sale of family possessions.
9. You will enter the land the Lord your God is giving you. But don’t learn to do the terrible things the other nations do.
10. Don’t let anyone among you offer his son or daughter as a sacrifice in the fire. Don’t let anyone use magic or witchcraft. No one should try to explain the meaning of signs.
11. Don’t let anyone try to control others with magic. Don’t let them be mediums or try to talk with the spirits of dead people.
12. The Lord hates anyone who does these things. The other nations do these things. That is why the Lord your God will force them out of the land ahead of you.
13. You must be innocent in the presence of the Lord your God.