Warning Against Idolatry

29 ^v“When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, 30 take care that you be not ^wensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ 31 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even ^xburn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Abominable Practices

9 ^h“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to ⁱfollow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who ^jburns his son or his daughter as an offering,¹ anyone who ^kpractices divination or ^ltells fortunes or interprets omens, or a ^msorcerer 11 or a charmer or a ⁿmedium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And ^obecause of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 ^pYou shall be blameless before the Lord your God, 14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.

18 ^vthat they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the Lord your God.