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"When you enter the land ADONAI your God is giving you, you are not to learn how to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
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There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through fire, a diviner, a soothsayer, an enchanter, a sorcerer,
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a spell-caster, a consulter of ghosts or spirits, or a necromancer.
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For whoever does these things is detestable to ADONAI, and because of these abominations ADONAI your God is driving them out ahead of you.
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You must be wholehearted with ADONAI your God.
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For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners; but you, ADONAI your God does not allow you to do this.
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"ADONAI will raise up for you a prophet like me from among yourselves, from your own kinsmen. You are to pay attention to him,
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just as when you were assembled at Horev and requested ADONAI your God, 'Don't let me hear the voice of ADONAI my God any more, or let me see this great fire ever again; if I do, I will die!'
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On that occasion ADONAI said to me, 'They are right in what they are saying.
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I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I order him.
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Whoever doesn't listen to my words, which he will speak in my name, will have to account for himself to me.