7. he may serve the Lord his God. He will be like his fellow Levites who serve there before the Lord.
8. They all will have an equal share of the food. That is separate from what he has received from the sale of family possessions.
9. When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, don’t learn to do the hateful things the other nations do.
10. Don’t let anyone among you offer a son or daughter as a sacrifice in the fire. Don’t let anyone use magic or witchcraft, or try to explain the meaning of signs.
11. Don’t let anyone try to control others with magic, and 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. Because the other nations do these things, the Lord your God will force them out of the land ahead of you.
13. But 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, who is one of your own people. Listen to him.
16. This is what you asked the Lord your God to do when you were gathered at Mount Sinai. You said, “Don’t make us listen to the voice of the Lord our God again, and don’t make us look at this terrible fire anymore, or we will die.”
17. So the Lord said to me, “What they have said is good.