Deuteronomy 18:10
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10 There shall not be found among you anyone (A)who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who (B)practices divination or (C)tells fortunes or interprets omens, or (D)a sorcerer
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- Deuteronomy 18:10 Hebrew makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire
Leviticus 19:31
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31 (A)“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
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Leviticus 19:26
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26 (A)“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. (B)You shall not interpret omens or (C)tell fortunes.
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Acts 19:19
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19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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Isaiah 47:13
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13 You are wearied with your many counsels;
let them stand forth and save you,
(A)those who divide the heavens,
who gaze at the stars,
who at the new moons make known
what shall come upon you.
Deuteronomy 12:31
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31 (A)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every (B)abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for (C)they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
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Exodus 22:18
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18 (A)“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
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Psalm 106:37-38
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37 They (A)sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to (B)the demons;
38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was (C)polluted with blood.
2 Chronicles 33:6
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6 (A)And he burned his sons as an offering (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and (C)used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with (D)mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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2 Chronicles 28:3
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3 and (A)he made offerings in the (B)Valley of the Son of Hinnom and (C)burned his sons as an offering,[a] according to (D)the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
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- 2 Chronicles 28:3 Hebrew made his sons pass through the fire
1 Chronicles 10:13
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13 So Saul died (A)for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also (B)consulted a medium, seeking guidance.
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2 Kings 21:6
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6 (A)And he burned his son as an offering[a] and (B)used fortune-telling and (C)omens and dealt (D)with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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- 2 Kings 21:6 Hebrew made his son pass through the fire
2 Kings 17:17
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17 (A)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (B)divination and (C)omens and (D)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
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- 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
2 Kings 16:3
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3 but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. (A)He even burned his son as an offering,[a] (B)according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
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- 2 Kings 16:3 Or made his son pass through the fire
1 Samuel 28:9
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9 The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, (A)how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?”
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1 Samuel 28:7
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7 Then Saul said to his servants, (A)“Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at (B)En-dor.”
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1 Samuel 28:3
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3 Now (A)Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him (B)in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put (C)the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.
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Leviticus 20:26-27
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26 (A)You shall be holy to me, (B)for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
27 (C)“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be (D)stoned with stones; (E)their blood shall be upon them.”
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Leviticus 20:2-5
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2 “Say to the people of Israel, (A)Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 (B)I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary (C)unclean and (D)to profane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not (E)put him to death, 5 then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in (F)whoring after Molech.
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Galatians 5:20
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20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, (A)divisions,
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Jeremiah 32:35
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Jeremiah 19:4-6
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4 (A)Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; (B)and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 5 (C)and have built the high places of Baal (D)to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, (E)which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— 6 therefore, (F)behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or (G)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
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Isaiah 8:19-20
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19 And when they say to you, “Inquire of the (A)mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of (B)the dead on behalf of the living? 20 (C)To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no (D)dawn.
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Leviticus 18:21-30
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21 You shall not give any of your children to (A)offer them[a] to (B)Molech, and so (C)profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. 22 (D)You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. 23 (E)And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is (F)perversion.
24 (G)“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, (H)for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the (I)land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land (J)vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But (K)you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the (L)native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29 For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 (M)So keep my charge never to practice (N)any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: (O)I am the Lord your God.”
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- Leviticus 18:21 Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]
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