Deut 18:9-20 (NIV) When you enter the land the LORD
your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations
there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in
the fire, who
practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
11 or casts spells, or who is a
medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to
the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will
drive out those nations before youÉ 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a
prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to himÉ 18 I will
raise up for
them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he
will tell them everything I command him.
19 If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my
name, I myself will call him to account. 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak
in my name
anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other
gods, must be put to death."