Whenever<n id="1" /> I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;You must not eat anything with the blood still in it.<n id="1" /> You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">But approach, you sons of omen readers,p> <p class="poetry">you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will remove the sorcery<n id="1" /> that you practice,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.<n id="3" />p>

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire,<n id="1" /> anyone who practices divination,<n id="2" /> an omen reader,<n id="3" /> a soothsayer,<n id="4" /> a sorcerer,<n id="5" />

Gaal again said, &#8220;Look, men are coming down from the very center<n id="1" /> of the land. A unit<n id="2" /> is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.&#8221;<n id="3" />

He passed his son<n id="1" /> through the fire<n id="2" /> and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it.<n id="3" /> He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc>, provoking him to anger.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="poetry">Indeed, O <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> you have abandoned your people,p> <p class="poetry">the descendants of Jacob.p> <p class="poetry">For diviners from the east are everywhere;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they consult omen readers like the Philistines do.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Plenty of foreigners are around.<n id="4" />p>

Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the <sc>Lordsc> your God has not given you permission to do such things.p>

He passed his sons through the fire<n id="1" /> in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.<n id="2" /> He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc> and angered him.<n id="3" />

So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination,<n id="1" /> by dreams, by consulting the dead,<n id="2" /> or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, &#8216;You do not need to be<n id="3" /> subject to the king of Babylon.&#8217;