Deuteronomy 18:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 20:6 : 6 And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.
  • Deut 18:10 : 10 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,
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
  • Acts 14:16 : 16 Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

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    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.

    10 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,

    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.

    13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:29-31
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    29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them;

    14 Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.

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    5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

    6 For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.

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