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Deuteronomy 18:10-22 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

10. “Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practises divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,

11. or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

12. “For whoever does these are an abomination to יהוה, and because of these abominations יהוה your Elohim drives them out from before you.

13. “Be perfect before יהוה your Elohim,

14. for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using magic and to diviners. But as for you, יהוה your Elohim has not appointed such for you.

15. “יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him,

16. according to all you asked of יהוה your Elohim in Ḥorĕḇ in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of יהוה my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die.’

17. “And יהוה said to me, ‘What they have spoken is good.

18. ‘I shall raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

19. ‘And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I 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 speaks in the name of other mighty ones, even that prophet shall die.’

21. “And when you say in your heart, ‘How do we know the word which יהוה has not spoken?’ –

22. when the prophet speaks in the Name of יהוה and the word is not, or comes not, that is the word which יהוה has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

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