Deuteronomy 18:10-11

10 There shall not be found among you anyone ¹who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, ^[a] anyone who ²practices divination or ³tells fortunes or interprets omens, or ⁴a sorcerer

11 or a charmer or ⁵a medium or a necromancer or ⁶one who inquires of the dead,

Deuteronomy 18:10-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 18

This chapter gives an account of the provision made for the priests and Levites, with the reason of it, De 18:1-5, of allowance of a country Levite to minister at Jerusalem, and take his portion with the rest, De 18:6-8, and of several persons of bad practices not to be suffered among the people of Israel, De 18:9-14, and of an extraordinary prophet that should be raised up among them, to whom they should hearken, or it would be the worse for them, De 18:15-19, but a false prophet was to be put to death, of whom a sign is given by which he might be known, De 18:20-22.

Cross References

• 1. 18:10 See Lev. 18:21
• 2. 18:10 2 Kgs. 17:17
• 3. 18:10 See Lev. 19:26
• 4. 18:10 [Ex. 22:18]
• 5. 18:11 See Lev. 19:31
• 6. 18:11 [1 Sam. 28:7]

Footnotes

• [a] 18:10 Hebrew 'makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire'