5. because the Lord your God selected Levi from all of your tribes to stand and minister in the Lord’s name—both him and his descendants for all time.
6. Now if a Levite leaves one of your cities or departs from any location in Israel where he’s been living and, because he wants to, comes to the location the Lord selects
7. and ministers in the Lord his God’s name, just like his relatives—the other Levites serving there in the Lord’s presence—
8. he is allowed to eat equal portions, despite the finances he has from his family.
9. Once you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, don’t try to imitate the detestable things those nations do.
10. There must not be anyone among you who passes his son or daughter through fire; who practices divination, is a sign reader, fortune-teller, sorcerer,
11. or spell caster; who converses with ghosts or spirits or communicates with the dead.