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For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
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A Holy Distinction
Commentators like John Calvin emphasize that Israel was forbidden from pagan divination because those very practices were the reason God was judging the Canaanite nations. To imitate them would be to adopt the sins that led to their destruction. God called His people to be holy and separate, not to become like the nations they were replacing.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
Certain forms of idolatry are to be avoided, especially unlawful means of communication with the unseen world.
16th Century
Protestant
For these nations. Just as God had previously been setting before them the punishment He was about to inflict on these nations, to alarm a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For those nations which you shall possess hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners
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Presbyterian
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…
