KJV King James Version
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
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Deuteronomy 18:11
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
WEB World English Bible
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
ASV American Standard Version
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 18
8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
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 unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do].
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