Exodus 22:18
18 a“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.Leviticus 19:31
31 b“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.Leviticus 20:6
6“If ca person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, dI will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.Deuteronomy 18:10-14
10There shall not be found among you anyone ewho burns his son or his daughter as an offering, ▼▼Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
anyone who gpractices divination or htells fortunes or interprets omens, or ia sorcerer 11or a charmer or ja medium or a necromancer or kone who inquires of the dead, 12 lfor whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And mbecause of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 14for 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. 1 Chronicles 10:13
13So Saul died nfor his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also oconsulted a medium, seeking guidance.Isaiah 8:19
19And when they say to you, “Inquire of the pmediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of qthe dead on behalf of the living?Isaiah 47:12-13
12 rStand fast in your enchantmentsand your many sorceries,
with which you have labored from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
perhaps you may inspire terror.
13You are wearied with your many counsels;
let them stand forth and save you,
sthose who divide the heavens,
who gaze at the stars,
who at the new moons make known
what shall come upon you.
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