Deuteronomy 18:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let 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,

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  • Lev 19:31 : 31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.
  • Lev 19:26 : 26 Nothing 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.
  • Exod 22:18 : 18 Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • 2 Kgs 17:17 : 17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.
  • Isa 47:13 : 13 But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
  • Acts 19:19 : 19 And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
  • Jer 19:4-6 : 4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong; 5 And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind: 6 For this cause, see, a time is coming, says the Lord, when this place will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death.
  • Jer 32:35 : 35 And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.
  • 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
  • 1 Chr 10:13 : 13 So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,
  • 2 Chr 28:3 : 3 More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 33:6 : 6 More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
  • Ps 106:37-38 : 37 They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits, 38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
  • Isa 8:19-20 : 19 And 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? 20 Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...
  • 1 Sam 28:3 : 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel, after weeping for him, had put his body in its last resting-place in Ramah, his town. And Saul had put away from the land all those who had control of spirits and who made use of secret arts.
  • 1 Sam 28:7 : 7 Then Saul said to his servants, Get me a woman who has control of a spirit so that I may go to her and get directions. And his servants said to him, There is such a woman at En-dor.
  • 1 Sam 28:9 : 9 And the woman said to him, But you have knowledge of what Saul has done, how he has put away out of the land those who have control of spirits and the users of secret arts: why would you, by a trick, put me in danger of death?
  • 2 Kgs 16:3 : 3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
  • Lev 20:2-5 : 2 Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land; 3 And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common. 4 And if the people of the land do not take note of that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death, 5 Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.
  • Lev 20:26-27 : 26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people. 27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.
  • Lev 18:21-30 : 21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord. 22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing. 23 And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act. 24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: 25 And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it. 26 So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you: 27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;) 28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you. 29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people. 30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:11-12
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    89%

    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.

    12 For 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.

  • Deut 18:9
    82%

    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Exod 22:18
    79%

    18 Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.

  • 2 Chr 33:6
    77%

    6 More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

  • Deut 18:14
    76%

    14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

  • Lev 18:21
    76%

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    76%

    17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • Lev 19:31
    76%

    31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:30-31
    2 verses
    76%

    30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 21:6
    76%

    6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

  • Mic 5:12
    75%

    12 And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.

  • Lev 20:27
    74%

    27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

  • Lev 19:26
    74%

    26 Nothing 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.

  • Lev 20:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.

    6 And 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.

  • Deut 17:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

    2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

    3 By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

    4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

  • Isa 8:19
    73%

    19 And 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?

  • 2 Kgs 23:10
    72%

    10 And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

  • Exod 34:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

    16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • 2 Chr 28:3
    70%

    3 More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • Deut 12:4
    70%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 13:11
    70%

    11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

  • Deut 20:18
    69%

    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Ps 81:9
    69%

    9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Isa 47:12
    69%

    12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.

  • Deut 7:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

    4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

  • Isa 57:3
    69%

    3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

  • Deut 14:1
    69%

    1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

  • Deut 13:14
    68%

    14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

  • Deut 13:8
    68%

    8 Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;

  • Isa 19:3
    68%

    3 And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.

  • Isa 47:9
    68%

    9 But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.

  • Lev 19:4
    68%

    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 18:24
    68%

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Lev 17:8
    68%

    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • Deut 4:25
    68%

    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Deut 13:6
    68%

    6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

  • Lev 20:2
    68%

    2 Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;

  • Deut 23:17
    68%

    17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

  • Deut 29:18
    68%

    18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;