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They shall have equal portions to eat, even though they have income from the sale of family possessions.
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When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.
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No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,
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or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.
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For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord; it is because of such abhorrent practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
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You must remain completely loyal to the Lord your God.
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Although these nations that you are about to dispossess do give heed to soothsayers and diviners, as for you, the Lord your God does not permit you to do so.
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The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.
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This is what you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: "If I hear the voice of the Lord my God any more, or ever again see this great fire, I will die."
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Then the Lord replied to me: "They are right in what they have said.
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I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.