KJV King James Version
Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
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Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
WEB World English Bible
“‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
ASV American Standard Version
Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Ye do not eat with the blood; ye do not enchant, nor observe clouds.
Surrounding context — Leviticus 19
23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD [withal].
25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I [am] the LORD your God.
26 Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.
29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
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Deuteronomy 18:10-14There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,2 Kings 17:17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.2 Chronicles 33:6And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.2 Kings 21:6And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.Leviticus 7:26Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.Leviticus 17:10-14And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.Leviticus 3:17[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.Jeremiah 10:2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to 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 fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.Daniel 2:10The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore [there is] no king, lord, nor ruler, [that] asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.Exodus 8:7And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.Exodus 7:11Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
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