Deuteronomy 18:11

Nor an incantator, or a consulter at a heathen oracle, or a wizard, or an inquirer from the dead:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10No one shall be found among thee who maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, using enchantments, observing times or augury or witchcraft,

12For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord; and because of these abominations the Lord thy God driveth them out from before thee.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:26You shall not eat anything with the blood. You shall not use enchantments, nor augury by the clouds.

Leviticus 20:6And the man who turneth away after impostors and diviners to wander after them, I will set My displeasure upon that man, and will cut him off from among his people.

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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