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They shall eat equal portions,[a] apart from what he may receive from the sale of his patrimony.[b]

“When you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or one who practices divination,[c] or an interpreter of signs,[d] or an augur,[e] or sorcerer,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:8 Literally “a portion like a portion”
  2. Deuteronomy 18:8 Hebrew meaning of these phrases/words is not certain; also could translate as “except what they receive from the sale of their fathers’ estates” (NASB); or “what he may inherit from his father’s family”
  3. Deuteronomy 18:10 Literally “a diviner of divination”
  4. Deuteronomy 18:10 Or “soothsayer”
  5. Deuteronomy 18:10 Or “an interpreter of omens”