Deuteronomy 18:12
For everyone doing these [is] an abomination [to] YHWH, and because of these abominations your God YHWH is dispossessing them from your presence.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11and a charmer, and one inquiring from a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking to the dead.
13You must be perfect with your God YHWH,
Cross References
Leviticus 18:27for the men of the land who [are] before you have done all these abominations and the land is defiled,
Deuteronomy 9:5[It is] not in your righteousness and in the uprightness of your heart [that] you are going in to possess their land, but in YHWH dispossessing these nations from your presence, [it is because of] their being wicked, and in order to establish the word which YHWH has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;
2 Kings 23:24And also, those having familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, Josiah has put away, in order to establish the words of the Law that are written on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest has found in the house of YHWH.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 18:10-15
Idolatrous Customs of the Canaanites. ( b. c. 1451.) 9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination… Read the whole commentary →