Prohibition of Pagan Practices

Deuteronomy 18:9-14

"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.