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There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
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God is the Only True Source
Commentators agree this verse is a sweeping prohibition against seeking supernatural knowledge or power from any source other than God. The practices listed, from horrific child sacrifice to various forms of divination, represent a rejection of God's guidance and an embrace of what one scholar calls "unlawful means of communication with the unseen world." This is a command for exclusive spiritual loyalty to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
To pass through the fire - that is, to Moloch; compare the (Leviticus 20:2) note.
That uses divination - Compare (…
19th Century
Anglican
Certain forms of idolatry are to be avoided, especially unlawful means of communication with the unseen world.
16th Century
Protestant
There shall not be found among you. This horrible and altogether monstrous infatuation, by which the Gentiles had been possessed, afterwar…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
There shall not be found among you anyone that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire
Was it possible that a people so blessed with Divine institutions could ever be in any danger of making those whom God had made their captives thei…
