11. or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
12. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.
13. You must be blameless before the Lord your God.
14. The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. 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 like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
16. For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”
17. The Lord said to me: “What they say is good.
18. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.
19. I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.