11. or cast spells, or function as mediums or psychics, or call forth the spirits of the dead.
12. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the lord. It is because the other nations have done these detestable things that the lord your God will drive them out ahead of you.
13. But you must be blameless before the lord your God.
14. The nations you are about to displace consult sorcerers and fortune-tellers, but the lord your God forbids you to do such things.”
15. Moses continued, “The lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.
16. For this is what you yourselves requested of the lord your God when you were assembled at Mount Sinai. You said, ‘Don’t let us hear the voice of the lord our God anymore or see this blazing fire, for we will die.’
17. “Then the lord said to me, ‘What they have said is right.