Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’”
But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?”
And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 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.
“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
Now the men were watching for a sign, and they quickly took it up from him and said, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go and bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
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