Deuteronomy 18:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Lev 19:31 : 31 Do not turn to those who have familiar spirits, nor seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
  • 1 Sam 28:11-14 : 11 Then the woman said, Whom shall I bring up for you? And he said, Bring up Samuel for me. 12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice, and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul. 13 And the king said to her, Do not be afraid. What do you see? And the woman said to Saul, I see gods ascending out of the earth. 14 And he said to her, What form does he have? And she said, An old man comes up, and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground.

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  • Deut 18:9-10
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    9When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

    10There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

  • 12For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

  • 31Do not turn to those who have familiar spirits, nor seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • 27A man or woman who has a familiar spirit, or who is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

  • 18You shall not allow a witch to live.

  • Lev 20:5-6
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    5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

    6And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go whoring after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

  • Isa 8:19-20
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    19And when they say to you, Seek those who have familiar spirits, and wizards that whisper and mutter: should not a people seek their God? for the living to the dead?

    20To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

  • 3The spirit of Egypt shall fail in its midst; I will destroy its counsel, and they shall seek the idols, the charmers, those with familiar spirits, and the wizards.

  • 6And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; also he observed times, used enchantments, used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards; he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • 12And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers.

  • 14For these nations, which you shall possess, listened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.

  • 6And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

  • 17They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • Deut 17:2-4
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    2If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who has done wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant,

    3and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

    4and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

  • 12Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you may prevail.

  • 31You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • 26Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • 26You shall not eat anything with the blood: nor shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.

  • 1 Sam 28:7-9
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    7Then Saul said to his servants, Seek me a woman with a familiar spirit, that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman with a familiar spirit at Endor.

    8And Saul disguised himself, and put on different clothing, and he went with two men, and they came to the woman by night. And he said, Please, divine for me by the familiar spirit, and bring up for me the one whom I shall name to you.

    9And the woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cast out those with familiar spirits and the wizards from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

  • 5Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.

  • 21And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

  • 3But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the offspring of the adulterer and the whore.

  • 11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.

  • 11Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

  • 3Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had expelled those with familiar spirits and the wizards from the land.

  • Deut 13:5-7
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    5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to push you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

    6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

    7Namely, of the gods of the people which are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

  • 11And they regarded him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

  • 4Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.

  • 24Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • 9But these two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries and for the great abundance of your enchantments.

  • 29For whoever commits any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

  • 16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • 9Therefore do not listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:

  • 24Moreover, the mediums and the sorcerers, and the images and idols, and all the abominations that were spotted in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

  • 15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

  • 18That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so you would sin against the LORD your God.

  • 8And you shall say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • 18Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitter poison and wormwood;

  • 17You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • 14Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;

  • 3You shall not eat any abominable thing.