Deuteronomy 18:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Common English Bible

¹¹ or spell caster; who converses with ghosts or spirits or communicates with the dead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ nor one who uses spells, nor one who consults demonic spirits, nor a diviner, nor one who seeks the truth from the dead.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune-tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.

Deuteronomy 18:11 Cross References

Exodus 22:18

“You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live.

Isaiah 8:19

Now if people say to you, “Consult the ghosts and the familiar spirits that chirp and mutter; should not a people consult their gods, the dead on behalf of the living,

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Leviticus 19:31

“Do not turn to mediums and spiritualists; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:27

“A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritualist shall be put to death; they shall be stoned to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.”

Leviticus 20:6

“If any turn to mediums or spiritualists, prostituting themselves to them, I will set my face against them and will cut them off from the people.

Acts 16:16

One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a female slave who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling.

1 Samuel 28:8

So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes and went there, he and two men with him. They came to the woman by night. And he said, “Consult a spirit for me, and bring up for me the one whom I name to you.”