Deuteronomy 18:11

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or who inquireth of the dead.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10There shall not be found among thee any one who causeth his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who useth divination, one who is an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a conjurer.

12For an abomination unto the Lord are all that do these things; and on account of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat upon the blood; nor shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Leviticus 20:6And the person that turneth unto such as have familiar spirits, and unto wizards, to go astray after them,—then will I set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

Isaiah 8:19And when they shall say unto you, “Inquire of those that have familiar spirits, and of the wizards, that whisper, and that mutter:” should not a people inquire of their God? [should we then] in behalf of the living [inquire] of 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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