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Leviticus 19:26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

26 Do not eat anything with the blood still in it.(A) Do not recite charms or practice soothsaying.[a](B)

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  1. 19:26 Recite charms…soothsaying: methods of divination (cf. Gn 44:5, 15; Is 2:6; Ez 21:26–28). Legitimate means of learning the future or God’s will were through the Urim and Thummim stones (see Lv 8:8), lots (see Lv 16:8) and prophets (cf. Dt 18:9–22; 1 Sm 28:6–7).
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