## Onkelos Deuteronomy Chapter 18

###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:1
[Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Deuteronomy/r/18:1)

לָא יְהֵי לְכָהֲנַיָּא לֵוָאֵי כָּל שִׁבְטָא דְלֵוִי חֳלָק וְאַחֲסָנָא עִם יִשְׂרָאֵל **קֻרְבָּנַיָּא** דַיְיָ וְאַחֲסַנְתֵּיהּ יֵיכְלוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They will not have—the *kohanim,* the Levites, the entire tribe of Levi—a portion or an inheritance with Yisroel; Adonoy’s fire-offerings [**sacrifices**] and His inheritance will they eat.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:2
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וְאַחֲסָנָא לָא יְהֵי לֵיהּ בְּגוֹ אֲחוֹהִי **מַתְּנָן דִּיהַב לֵיהּ** יְיָ אִנּוּן אַחֲסַנְתֵּיהּ כְּמָא דִי מַלִּיל לֵיהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
But he will have no territory among his brothers; [**the gifts that**] Adonoy [**has given him**] is his territory, as He said to him.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:3
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וְדֵין יְהֵי דְחָזֵי לְכָהֲנַיָּא מִן עַמָּא מִן נָכְסֵי נִכְסָתָא אִם תּוֹר אִם אִמָּר וְיִתֵּן לְכַהֲנָא דְּרוֹעָא וְלוֹעָא וְקֻבְתָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
And this will be the stipend of the *kohanim* from the people from the slaughterers of [permitted] meat, whether an ox or a sheep; he will give the *kohein* the foreleg and the jaw and the [fourth] stomach.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:4
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רֵישׁ עִבוּרָךְ חַמְרָךְ וּמִשְׁחָךְ וְרֵישׁ גִּזָּא דְעָנָךְ תִּתֶּן לֵיהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The first portion of your grain, your wine, and your olive oil, and the first of the shearing of your sheep are you to give him.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:5
[Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Deuteronomy/r/18:5)

אֲרֵי בֵיהּ יִתִּרְעֵי יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ מִכָּל שִׁבְטָיךְ לְמֵקַם לְשַׁמָּשָׁא בִשְׁמָא דַיְיָ הוּא וּבְנוֹהִי כָּל יוֹמַיָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For him did Adonoy, your God, choose from all your tribes to stand and perform the service in the name of Adonoy, he and his sons for all time.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:6
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וַאֲרֵי יֵיתֵי לֵוָאָה מֵחֲדָא מִקִּרְוָיךְ מִכָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל דִּי הוּא דָּר תַּמָּן וְיֵיתֵי בְּכָל רְעוּת נַפְשֵׁיהּ לְאַתְרָא דִּי יִתִּרְעֵי יְיָ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
If a Levite should come from one of your cities throughout Yisroel where he sojourns, coming will all his soul’s desire to the place that Adonoy chooses.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:7
[Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Deuteronomy/r/18:7)

וִישַׁמַּשׁ בִּשְׁמָא דַּיְיָ אֱלָהֵיהּ כְּכָל אֲחוֹהִי לֵוָאֵי **דִּמְשַׁמְּשִׁין** תַּמָּן **(בִּצְלוֹ)** קֳדָם יְיָ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
He shall perform the service in the name of Adonoy, his God, like all his brother Levites who stand [**serve**] there [**(in prayer)**] in Adonoy’s Presence.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:8
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חֳלָק כָּחֳלָק יֵיכְלוּן בַּר **מִמַּטַּרְתָּא דְּיֵיתֵי בְשַׁבַּתָּא דְּכֵן אַתְקִינוּ אֲבָהָתָא**:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
They shall eat equal portions [**portion for portions**], except for what the families sold [to one another] [**exept for the allotment which come on Shabbos, as our (fore)fathers have regulated**].


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:9
[Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Deuteronomy/r/18:9)

אֲרֵי אַתְּ עָלֵל לְאַרְעָא דַּיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ יָהֵב לָךְ לָא תֵילַף לְמֶעְבַּד כְּטַעֲוַת עַמְמַיָּא הָאִנּוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Because you are entering the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you; do not learn to perpetrate the abominations of those nations.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:10
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לָא יִשְׁתְּכַח בָּךְ מַעֲבַר בְּרֵיהּ וּבְרַתֵּיהּ בְּנוּרָא קָסֵם קֻסְמִין מְעָנֵן וּמְנַחֵשׁ וְחָרָשׁ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Let there not exist among you anyone who passes his son or daughter through fire, who practices the kosem-occult; who practices time-frame-occult or who divines portentuous events or a sorcerer.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:11
[Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Deuteronomy/r/18:11)

וְרָטִין רְטָן וְשָׁאֵל בִּדִּין וּזְכוּרוּ וְתָבַע מִן מֵתַיָּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Or a snake charmer, or one who invokes the spirit of Ov or *yidoni,* or communicates with the dead.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:12
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אֲרֵי **מְרָחָק** יְיָ כָּל דְּיַעְבֵּד אִלֵּין וּבְדִיל תּוֹעֲבָתָא הָאִלֵּין יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ מְתָרַךְ יָתְהוֹן מִקֳּדָמָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For Adonoy’s abomination is [**distances**] anyone perpetrating this and because of these abominations, Adonoy, your God, is expelling them from before you.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:13
[Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Deuteronomy/r/18:13)

שְׁלִים תְּהֵי **בְּדַחַלְתָּא** דַּיְיָ אֱלָהָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Walk in perfect trust with [**in the fear of**] Adonoy, your God.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:14
[Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Deuteronomy/r/18:14)

אֲרֵי עַמְמַיָּא הָאִלֵּין דִּי אַתְּ יָרֵת יָתְהוֹן מִן מְעָנְנַיָּא וּמִן קַסָּמַיָּא שָׁמְעִין וְאַתְּ לָא כֵן יְהַב לָךְ יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Although these nations whom you are inheriting heed augurers and sorcerers, but as to you—Adonoy, your God, has not given you their status.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:15
[Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Deuteronomy/r/18:15)

נְבִיָּא מִבֵּינָךְ מֵאַחָיךְ כְּוָתִי יְקִים לָךְ יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ מִנֵּיהּ תְּקַבְּלוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
A prophet from your midst, of your brethren, like me, will Adonoy, your God, establish for you; heed him.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:16
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כְּכֹל דִּי שְׁאֶלְתָּא **מִקֳּדָם** יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ בְּחֹרֵב בְּיוֹמָא דִקְהָלָא לְמֵימָר לָא אוֹסֵף לְמִשְׁמַע יָת קָל **מֵימְרָא** דַיְיָ אֱלָהַי וְיָת אֶשָּׁתָא רַבְּתָא הָדָא לָא אֶחֱזֵי עוֹד וְלָא אֵמוּת:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Exactly as you requested from [**before**] Adonoy, your God, at Choreiv, on the day of assembly, saying, ‘‘Let me not continue to hear the voice [**the word**] of Adonoy, my God, and this great fire let me not see any more as that I will not die.’’


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:17
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וַאֲמַר יְיָ לִי אוֹטִיבוּ דִּי מַלִּילוּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Adonoy said to me, ‘‘What they said is excellent.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:18
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נְבִיָּא אֲקִים לְהוֹן מִגּוֹ אֲחֵיהוֹן כְּוָתָךְ וְאֶתֵּן פִּתְגָּמֵי **נְבוּאָתִי** בְּפוּמֵיהּ וִימַלֵּל עִמְּהוֹן יָת כָּל דִּי אֲפַקְּדִנֵּיהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
A prophet will I establish for them from among their brethren like you, and I will place My words [**of prophecy**] in his mouth and he will tell them everything that I command him.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:19
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וִיהֵי גַּבְרָא דִּי לָא יְקַבֵּל לְפִתְגָּמַי דִּי יְמַלֵּל בִּשְׁמִי **מֵימְרִי** יִתְבַּע מִנֵּיהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Now, the man who does not heed My words that he speaks in My Name; I [**My word**] will demand from him.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:20
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בְּרַם נְבִיָּא דִּי יַרְשַׁע לְמַלָּלָא פִתְגָּמָא בִּשְׁמִי יָת דִּי לָא פַקֵּדִתֵּיהּ לְמַלָּלָא וְדִי יְמַלֵּל בְּשׁוּם **טַעֲוַת עַמְמַיָּא** וְיִתְקְטֵל נְבִיָּא הַהוּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
But the prophet who will malevolently make a statement in My Name, something that I did not instruct him to say, or which he says in the name of foreign gods [**idols of the nations**], that prophet must die.


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:21
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וַאֲרֵי תֵימַר בְּלִבָּךְ אֶכְדֵּין נִדַּע יָת פִּתְגָּמָא דִּי לָא מַלְּלֵיהּ יְיָ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
If you should say to yourself, ‘‘How can we know [which is] the statement that Adonoy did not speak?’’


###### Onkelos Deuteronomy 18:22
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דִּי יְמַלֵּל נְבִיָּא בִּשְׁמָא דַיְיָ וְלָא יְהֵי פִתְגָּמָא וְלָא יִתְקַיַּם הוּא פִתְגָּמָא דִּי לָא מַלְּלֵיהּ יְיָ בִּרְשַׁע מַלְּלֵיהּ נְבִיָּא לָא תִדְחַל מִנֵּיהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Should the prophet speak in Adonoy’s Name, and the matter does not happen and is not fulfilled, that is the statement that Adonoy did not speak. The prophet spoke it malevolently; do not fear him.