Deuteronomy 18:11

Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.

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Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

In Context

10Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,

12For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:26Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

Leviticus 20:6And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.

Isaiah 8:19And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 18:10-15

Idolatrous Customs of the Canaanites. ( b. c. 1451.) 9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination… Read the whole commentary →

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