Bible Language Cross References for the verse Isaiah 51:16 in NET
- 1 The Levitical priests� indeed, the entire tribe of Levi� will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance.
- 2 They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
- 3 This shall be the priests' fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep� they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.
- 4 You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.
- 5 For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.
- 6 Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the LORD chooses
- 7 and serves in the name of the LORD his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.
- 8 He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family's inheritance.
- 9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
- 10 There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,
- 11 one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.
- 12 Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.
- 13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
- 14 Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the LORD your God has not given you permission to do such things.
- 15 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.
- 16 This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God: "Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die."
- 17 The LORD then said to me, "What they have said is good.
- 18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.
- 19 I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.
- 20 "But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.
- 21 Now if you say to yourselves, 'How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?'�
- 22 whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him."