Deuteronomy 18:9-14
Legacy Standard Bible
Do Not Imitate Abominations
9 “When you enter the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to [a](A)imitate the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone (B)who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one (C)who practices soothsaying or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer, 11 or one who is an enchanter (D)or a medium or a spiritist or one who inquires of the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh; and (E)because of these abominations Yahweh your God will dispossess them from before you. 13 (F)You shall be [b]blameless before Yahweh your God. 14 For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who (G)practice soothsaying and to diviners, but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do so.
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- Deuteronomy 18:9 Lit do according to
- Deuteronomy 18:13 Or having integrity; lit complete, perfect
Deuteronomy 18:9-14
Lexham English Bible
9 “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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- Deuteronomy 18:10 Literally “a diviner of divination”
- Deuteronomy 18:10 Or “soothsayer”
- Deuteronomy 18:10 Or “an interpreter of omens”
- Deuteronomy 18:11 Or “medium”
- Deuteronomy 18:11 Or “necromancer”
- Deuteronomy 18:12 Literally “the face of you”
- Deuteronomy 18:14 Or “practice witchcraft”
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