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Deuteronomy 18:11
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KJ21
or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
ASV
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
AMP
or one who casts a charm or spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or a necromancer [who seeks the dead].
AMPC
Or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
BRG
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
CSB
cast spells, consult a medium or a spiritist, or inquire of the dead.
CSBA
cast spells, consult a medium or a spiritist, or enquire of the dead.
CEB
or spell caster; who converses with ghosts or spirits or communicates with the dead.
CJB
a spell-caster, a consulter of ghosts or spirits, or a necromancer.
CEV
Don't sacrifice your son or daughter. And don't try to use any kind of magic or witchcraft to tell fortunes or to cast spells or to talk with spirits of the dead.
DARBY
or a charmer, or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth the dead.
DRA
Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.
ERV
Don’t let anyone try to put magic spells on other people. Don’t let any of your people become a medium or a wizard. And no one should try to talk with someone who has died.
EASY
Never use magic to curse anyone. Never try to speak to the spirits of dead people or other spirits.
EHV
or who casts a magic spell, or who consults a ghost or a familiar spirit, or who inquires of the dead.
ESV
or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,
ESVUK
or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who enquires of the dead,
EXB
Don’t let anyone ·try to control others with magic [cast spells], and don’t let them ·be mediums [consult/inquire of ghosts or spirits] or try to ·talk with the spirits of [consult] dead people [1 Sam. 28].
GNV
Or a charmer, or that counseleth with spirits, or a soothsayer, or that asketh counsel at the dead.
GW
cast spells, ask ghosts or spirits for help, or consult the dead.
GNT
or charms, and don't let them consult the spirits of the dead.
HCSB
cast spells, consult a medium or a familiar spirit, or inquire of the dead.
ICB
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.
ISV
casts spells, or who is a medium, an occultist, or a necromancer.
JUB
or a charmer or a spiritist or a diviner or a necromancer.
KJV
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
AKJV
or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
LSB
or one who is an enchanter or a medium or a spiritist or one who inquires of the dead.
LEB
or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults a spirit of the dead, or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead.
TLB
or be a serpent charmer, medium, or wizard, or call forth the spirits of the dead.
MSG
When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you, don’t take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there. Don’t you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don’t practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery, casting spells, holding séances, or channeling with the dead. People who do these things are an abomination to God. It’s because of just such abominable practices that God, your God, is driving these nations out before you.
MEV
or one who casts spells, or a spiritualist, or an occultist, or a necromancer.
NOG
cast spells, ask ghosts or spirits for help, or consult the dead.
NABRE
or who casts spells, consults ghosts and spirits, or seeks oracles from the dead.
NASB
or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead.
NASB1995
or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
NCB
or cast spells, or act as a medium, or act as a wizard, or seek oracles from the dead.
NCV
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.
NET
one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.
NIRV
Don’t put a spell on anyone. Don’t get messages from those who have died. Don’t talk to the spirits of the dead. Don’t get advice from the dead.
NIV
or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
NIVUK
or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
NKJV
or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
NLV
or uses secret power on people, or helps people talk to spirits, or talks to spirits himself, or talks with the dead.
NLT
or cast spells, or function as mediums or psychics, or call forth the spirits of the dead.
NRSVA
or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.
NRSVACE
or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.
NRSVCE
or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.
NRSVUE
or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.
OJB
Or one who casts spells, or one who inquires of a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a doresh el hamesim (a consulter of the dead ones, i.e., a necromancer).
RGT
“a conjurer who counsels with spirits, a medium, or one who asks counsel from the dead.
RSV
or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
RSVCE
or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
TLV
or one who casts spells, or a medium, a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
VOICE
casting spells, or trying to contact ghosts, spirits, or the dead.
WEB
or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
WYC
neither any enchanter or tregetour, (that is, he who deceiveth men’s eyes so that a thing seem that which it is not); neither a man take counsel of them that have a fiend speaking within them, neither of false diviners, neither seek of dead men the truth (nor let anyone take counsel from them who have a fiend speaking within them, or from false diviners, nor seek they to learn the truth from the dead).
YLT
and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead.
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