8. They shall eat equal portions, apart from what he may receive from the sale of his patrimony.
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, or an interpreter of signs, or an augur, or sorcerer,
11. or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults a spirit of the dead, or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead.
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.
13. You must be blameless before Yahweh your God.
14. For these nations that you are about to dispossess listen to interpreters of signs and to diviners, but Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do the same.
15. “Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your countrymen, and to him you shall listen.
16. This is according to all that you asked from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘I do not want again to hear the voice of Yahweh my God, and I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!’
17. And Yahweh said to me, ‘They are right in what they have said.
18. I will raise up a prophet for them from among their countrymen like you, and I will place my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them everything that I command him.