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Deuter­­onomy 18:10-20 Modern English Version (MEV)

10. There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or uses witchcraft, or an interpreter of omens, or a sorcerer,

11. or one who casts spells, or a spiritualist, or an occultist, or a necromancer.

12. For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God will drive them out from before you.

13. You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

14. For these nations, which you shall possess, listened to soothsayers and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so.

15. The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You must listen to him.

16. This is according to all that you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, so that I do not die.”

17. The Lord said to me, “They have done well in what they have said.

18. I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers, like you, and will put My words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him.

19. It will be that whoever will not listen to My words which he will speak in My name, I will require it of him.

20. But the prophet, who presumes to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods—that prophet shall die.”

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