9. You will enter the land the Lord your God is giving you. But don’t learn to do the terrible things the other nations do.
10. Don’t let anyone among you offer his son or daughter as a sacrifice in the fire. Don’t let anyone use magic or witchcraft. No one should try to explain the meaning of signs.
11. Don’t let anyone try to control others with magic. Don’t let them be mediums or try to talk with the spirits of dead people.
12. The Lord hates anyone who does these things. The other nations do these things. That is why the Lord your God will force them out of the land ahead of you.
13. You must be innocent in the presence of the Lord your God.
14. The nations you will force out listen to people who use magic and witchcraft. But the Lord your God will not let you do those things.
15. The Lord your God will give you a prophet like me. He will be one of your own people. Listen to him.
16. This is what you asked the Lord your God to do. You were gathered at Mount Sinai. You said, “Don’t make us listen to the voice of the Lord our God again. Don’t make us look at this terrible fire anymore. We will die.”
17. So the Lord said to me, “What they have said is good.
18. So I will give them a prophet like you. He will be one of their own people. I will tell him what to say. And he will tell them everything I command.