Deuteronomy 18:10
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
Note Literally makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
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 tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
There shall not be found with thee any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- maketh
- Deuteronomy 12:31; Leviticus 18:21–30; Leviticus 20:2–5; 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chronicles 28:3; Psalm 106:37, 38; Jeremiah 19:4–6; Jeremiah 32:35
- that useth divination
- The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained: he that useth divination, {kosaim, kesamim,} seems a general term for the various species after specified; observer of times, {meonain,} one who pretends to foretell by the clouds, planets, etc.; enchanter {menachesh,} a diviner, either by means of serpents, or by inspecting the entrails of beasts, the flight of birds, etc.; a witch, {mecashsheph,} one who used magical fumigations, etc.; a charmer, {chover chaver,} one who uses spells, or a peculiar conjunction of words, or tying knots, etc.; a consulter with familiar spirits, {shoel ov,} a pythoness; a wizard, {yidoni,} a cunning man; necromancer, {doresh el hammaithim} one who seeks enquiries of the dead.
- Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 19:26, 31; Leviticus 20:26, 27; 1 Samuel 28:3, 7, 9; 1 Chronicles 10:13; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Isaiah 8:19, 20; Isaiah 47:13; Acts 19:19; Galatians 5:20