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“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,[a] or an interpreter of signs,[b] or an augur,[c] or sorcerer, 11 or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults a spirit of the dead,[d] or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead.[e] 12 For everyone doing these things is detestable to Yahweh, and because of these detestable things Yahweh your God is driving them out from before you.[f] 13 You must be blameless before Yahweh your God. 14 For these nations that you are about to dispossess listen to interpreters of signs[g] and to diviners, but Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do the same.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:10 Literally “a diviner of divination”
  2. Deuteronomy 18:10 Or “soothsayer”
  3. Deuteronomy 18:10 Or “an interpreter of omens”
  4. Deuteronomy 18:11 Or “medium”
  5. Deuteronomy 18:11 Or “necromancer”
  6. Deuteronomy 18:12 Literally “the face of you”
  7. Deuteronomy 18:14 Or “practice witchcraft”