²⁷ But Laban said to him, “If ^[a]it pleases you at all, stay with me; I have determined by divination ^(A)that the Lord has blessed me on your account.”

¹⁵ Joseph said to them, “What is this thing that you have done? Do you not know that a man who is like me can indeed practice ^(A)divination?”

²⁶ ‘You shall not eat any meat ^(A)with the blood. You shall not practice ^(B)divination nor soothsaying.

¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone ^(A)who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, a ^(B)soothsayer, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or one who casts a spell, ^(C)or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead. ¹² For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and ^(D)because of these detestable things the Lord your God is going to drive them out before you. ^13 (E)You are to be blameless before the Lord your God. ¹⁴ For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to ^(F)soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.