¹⁴ For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

⁶ And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

¹⁰ Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,

¹⁹ He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

²⁰ He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

¹⁶ Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.