Deuteronomy 18
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Deuteronomy 18:11-18

11one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.

12Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is about to drive them out from before you.

13You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

14Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.

15The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you – from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.

16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

17The Lord then said to me, “What they have said is good.

18I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

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