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. For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 18 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →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.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The slave girl has a 'spirit of divination' (Greek: a python spirit) and earns money by fortune-telling. The Mosaic legislation expressly bans divination, soothsaying, and consulting spirits as abominations among the nations Israel dispossesses; Paul's exorcism enacts the abolition of precisely this pagan practice. Strong thematic and conceptual coherence with the core prohibition.
High confidenceMagicians publicly renounce and burn their books of magical arts; Deuteronomy names sorcery, divination, and the practice of magic as detestable abominations to be purged from Israel. The repudiation of magic is the precise behavior the law demands (Volume: strong thematic match of magic-renunciation; Recurrence: Luke repeatedly opposes the gospel to magic, Simon in ch.8, Bar-Jesus in ch.13; Coherence: high). The book-burning enacts the Deuteronomic purge.
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