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When you come to the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to do according to the hateful acts of those nations.

There shall not be found in you one who passes his son or his daughter through the fire, one that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or one divining, or a whisperer of spells,

or a magic charmer, or one consulting mediums, or a spirit-knower, or one inquiring of the dead.

For all doing these things are an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these filthy acts Jehovah your God is dispossessing these nations before you.

You shall be perfect with Jehovah your God.

For these nations whom you shall expel listen to observers of clouds, and to those divining. But as to you, Jehovah your God has not given to you to do so.