Then Pharaoh also called wise men and sorcerers; now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their fire worship.
For each one cast down his rod, and they became dragons; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Ye shall not eat any thing with blood. Ye shall not be fortunetellers, nor diviners.
Do not return unto spiritists or seek after diviners, to be defiled by them. I AM your God.
And the person that turns after spiritists or after diviners to prostitute themselves after them, I will even set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
And the man or the woman that consults with spiritists, or that is a diviner, shall surely die; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.
¶ When thou shall have come into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those Gentiles.
There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire or that uses divination or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch
or a charmer or a spiritist or a diviner or a necromancer.
For anyone that does these things is an abomination unto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God drove them out from before thee.
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
For these Gentiles, whom thou shalt inherit, hearkened unto observers of times and unto diviners, but as for thee, the Lord thy God has not allowed thee to do so.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
And he made his son pass through the fire and observed times and used enchantments and dealt with spiritists and diviners and multiplied much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again;
So Saul died for his rebellion which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he did not keep, and also for consulting a spiritist, to enquire of her
and not enquire of the Lord; therefore, he slew him and turned the kingdom unto David, the son of Jesse.
For the living know that they shall die, but the dead do not know any thing; neither do they have any more reward, for their memory is placed into oblivion.
Even their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion in the age in any thing that is done under the sun.
¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto spiritists and unto wizards that peep and that mutter; shall the people not seek unto their God? Shall we appeal for the living unto the dead?
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise because thou hast visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.
Therefore do not hearken unto your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your sorcerers, nor to your enchanters, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
and I will cause the witchcrafts to be destroyed by thy hand; and no more soothsayers shall be found in thee:
and I will cause thy graven images and thy images to be destroyed out of the midst of thee; and never again shalt thou worship the work of thine hands.
And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the Lord of the hosts.
And to him they had regard because for a long time he had amazed them with magic arts.
But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
¶ And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a Pythian spirit met us, which brought her masters much gain by divination:
And she did this for many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
In the same manner many who had practiced vain arts brought their books together and burned them before everyone, and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;
But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection; on such the second death has no authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.