For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 18:14 in context
Deuteronomy 18:11–17
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or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
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For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. Because of these abominations, the LORD your God drives them out from before you.
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You shall be blameless with the LORD your God.
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For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.
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The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
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This is according to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the LORD my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”
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The LORD said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken.
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