Abominable Practices
9 "When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, ch. 12:29-31;See Lev. 18:26-30you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone See Lev. 18:21who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,18:10 Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire anyone who 2 Kgs. 17:17practices divination or See Lev. 19:26tells fortunes or interprets omens, or [Ex. 22:18]a sorcerer 11 or a charmer or See Lev. 19:31a medium or a necromancer or [1 Sam. 28:7]one who inquires of the dead, 12 ch. 22:5;25:16for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And See ch. 9:4because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.