Deuteronomy 18:11

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Or one who casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or who seeks the dead.

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  • Lev 19:31 : 31 Do not turn to mediums or spiritists. Do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
  • 1 Sam 28:11-14 : 11 Then the woman asked, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" Saul answered, "Bring up Samuel for me." 12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice and said to Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!" 13 The king said to her, "Do not be afraid. What do you see?" The woman said to Saul, "I see a spirit coming up out of the earth." 14 Saul asked her, "What does he look like?" She replied, "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe." Then Saul knew it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground in reverence.

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  • Deut 18:9-10
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    9When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.

    10Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, practices divination, tells fortunes, interprets omens, or engages in witchcraft.

  • Deut 18:12
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    12For anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. Because of these detestable practices, the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you.

  • Lev 19:31
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    31Do not turn to mediums or spiritists. Do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 20:27
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    27If a man or a woman has a spirit of divination or is a medium, they must be put to death. They are to be stoned, and their blood is upon them.

  • Exod 22:18
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    18Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:5-6
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    5then I will set my face against that man and his family, and I will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech.

    6If anyone turns to mediums or spiritists, prostituting themselves by following them, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people.

  • Isa 8:19-20
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    19When they say to you, 'Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,' shouldn’t a people consult their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

    20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

  • Isa 19:3
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    3The spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied from within them, and I will confound their plans. They will seek idols, mediums, spirits, and fortune-tellers.

  • 2 Chr 33:6
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    6He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination, sought omens, practiced witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

  • Mic 5:12
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    12I will destroy your carved images and your sacred stones from among you, and you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.

  • Deut 18:14
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    14The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.

  • 2 Kgs 21:6
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    6He sacrificed his own son by fire, practiced divination and omen reading, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
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    17They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

  • Deut 17:2-4
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    2If a man or woman in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you is found to have committed an evil act in the sight of the LORD your God, violating His covenant,

    3and they go and worship other gods, bowing down to them, or to the sun, the moon, or the stars in the sky, which I have not commanded,

    4and you are told about it and hear of it, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and confirmed that such a detestable act has been done in Israel,

  • Isa 47:12
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    12Persist then with your spells and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth—perhaps you might succeed, perhaps you might cause terror.

  • Deut 12:31
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    31You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  • Deut 7:26
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    26Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

  • Lev 19:26
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    26Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens.

  • 1 Sam 28:7-9
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    7Then Saul said to his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her." His servants replied, "There is a woman who is a medium at En-dor."

    8So Saul disguised himself by wearing other clothes. He went, accompanied by two men, and they came to the woman at night. Saul said, "Consult a spirit for me and bring up for me the one I name to you."

    9The woman said to him, "Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why are you setting a trap for my life to bring about my death?"

  • Ps 58:5
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    5Their venom is like the venom of a serpent, like that of a deaf cobra that stops its ears.

  • Lev 18:21
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    21Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

  • Isa 57:3
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    3But as for you, come here, you offspring of sorceresses, you children of adulterers and prostitutes!

  • Deut 13:11
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    11Stone him to death because he sought to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  • Exod 7:11
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    11Pharaoh then summoned the wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their secret arts.

  • 1 Sam 28:3
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    3Now Samuel had died, and all Israel mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his hometown. Meanwhile, Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.

  • Deut 13:5-7
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    5You must follow the LORD your God, fear Him, keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.

    6But that prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he encouraged rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to lead you away from the path the LORD your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

    7If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods'—gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,

  • Acts 8:11
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    11They followed him because he had amazed them with his magic for a long time.

  • Nah 3:4
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    4All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

  • Isa 47:9
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    9But these two things will come upon you in a moment, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite your many sorceries and the great power of your spells.

  • Lev 18:29
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    29For anyone who commits any of these detestable practices will be cut off from among their people.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Jer 27:9
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    9So do not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, soothsayers, or sorcerers who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

  • 2 Kgs 23:24
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    24Josiah also removed the mediums, spiritists, household idols, images, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to fulfill the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.

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    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

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