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Deuteronomy 18:10-11

The New Testament’s use of Deuteronomy

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Acts 8:9-13

Simon's practice of 'sorcery' that 'amazed the people of Samaria' stands against the Torah's explicit ban on the diviner, soothsayer, enchanter, and sorcerer. Thematic coherence is strong (forbidden magic confronted by the true word of God), and the sorcery vocabulary recurs in the prophetic polemic; volume is conceptual rather than lexical.

Medium confidence
Acts 13:4-12

Elymas the magos/false prophet embodies precisely the sorcery and divination Deuteronomy forbids in Israel; Luke frames the confrontation as the true word of God against the prohibited mantic arts. Thematic coherence high, verbal overlap conceptual rather than lexical.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Deuteronomy 18
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 2Deuteronomy 18:13 3Deuteronomy 18:15-18 3Deuteronomy 18:15 14Deuteronomy 18:15-19 3Deuteronomy 18:18 3Deuteronomy 18:18-19 2Deuteronomy 18:20-22 2