And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise with their secret arts.
Each threw down his staff, and they became snakes, and Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
“ ‘You will not let a witch live.
“ ‘You must not eat anything with the blood; you shall not practice divination, nor shall you interpret signs.
“ ‘You shall not turn to the mediums and to the soothsayers; you shall not seek them to become unclean with them; I am Yahweh your God.
As for the person who turns to the mediums and the soothsayers to prostitute after them, I will set my face against that person, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people.
“ ‘And a man or a woman, if a spirit of the dead or a spirit of divination is in them, they shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones—their blood is on them.’ ”
“When you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.
There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or one who practices divination, or an interpreter of signs, or an augur, or sorcerer,
or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults a spirit of the dead, or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead.
For everyone doing these things is detestable to Yahweh, and because of these detestable things Yahweh your God is driving them out from before you.
You must be blameless before Yahweh your God.
For these nations that you are about to dispossess listen to interpreters of signs and to diviners, but Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do the same.
He built an altar to all of the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the temple of Yahweh.
He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He increased the doing of evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.
A cloud vanishes, and it goes away,
so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up.
So Saul died on account of his sin which he had sinned against Yahweh concerning the command of Yahweh that he did not keep. He also consulted a medium to seek guidance.
But he did not seek Yahweh. So Yahweh put him to death and turned over the kingship to David, the son of Jesse.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.
What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun.
For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob,
because they are full from the east,
and of soothsayers like the Philistines,
and they make alliances with the offspring of foreigners.
Now if they tell you, “Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living,
for teaching and for testimony?” surely they who speak like this have no dawn.
The dead do not live;
dead spirits do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them,
and you have destroyed all memory of them.
And you, you must not listen to your prophets, and to your diviners, and to your dreamers, and to your interpreters of signs, and to your sorcerers who are saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
For they are prophesying to you a lie, so that you will be removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish.
And I will cut off sorceries from your hand,
and you will not have soothsayers.
And I will cut off your idols
and your stone pillars from among you,
and you will no longer bow down
to the work of your hands.
Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
“Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear falsely, and against the oppressors of the hired worker with his wages, the widow and the orphan, and the abusers of the alien, and yet do not fear me,” says Yahweh of hosts.
And they were paying attention to him because for a long time he had astonished them with his magic.
But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were being baptized.
And it happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain female slave who had a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing a large profit to her owners by fortune-telling.
And she was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed and turning around, said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out immediately.
and many of those who practiced magic brought together their books and burned them up in the sight of everyone. And they counted up their value and found it was fifty thousand silver coins.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,
And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed.) This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection. Over this person the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years.
But as for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.