Bible Verses About The Jews: Following practices of others

"When ADONAI your God has cut off ahead of you the nations you are entering in order to dispossess, and when you have dispossessed them and are living in their land;

be careful, after they have been destroyed ahead of you, not to be trapped into following them; so that you inquire after their gods and ask, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I want to do the same.'

You must not do this to ADONAI your God! For they have done to their gods all the abominations that ADONAI hates! They even burn up their sons and daughters in the fire for their gods!

"When you enter the land ADONAI your God is giving you, you are not to learn how to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through fire, a diviner, a soothsayer, an enchanter, a sorcerer,

a spell-caster, a consulter of ghosts or spirits, or a necromancer.

For whoever does these things is detestable to ADONAI, and because of these abominations ADONAI your God is driving them out ahead of you.

You must be wholehearted with ADONAI your God.

For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners; but you, ADONAI your God does not allow you to do this.