Leviticus 19:26

Eat not on the mountains, nor shall you⌃ employ auguries, nor divine by inspection of birds.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

In Context

25And in the fifth year you⌃ shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.

27You⌃ shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:11But Pharao called together the wise men of Egypt, and the sorcerers, and the charmers also of the Egyptians did likewise with their sorceries.

Leviticus 3:17It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; you⌃ shall eat no fat and no blood.

Leviticus 17:10And whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers dwelling among you, shall eat any blood, I will even set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will destroy it from its people.

Deuteronomy 18:10There shall not be found in you one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who + 18:10 Gr. divines. uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,

1 Samuel 15:23For sin is as divination; idols bring on pain and grief. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord also shall reject you from being king over Israel.

2 Kings 21:6And he caused his sons to pass through the fire, and used divination and auspices, and made + 21:6 Lit. peculiar places cut off. groves, and multiplied + 21:6 Alex. θελητὴν. wizards, so as to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 19:20-30

19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord , unto the door of the tabernacle of… Read the whole commentary →

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