Imamat 19:31

19:31 Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits ¹  to become unclean by them. I am the Lord your God.

Yesaya 47:13

47:13 You are tired out from listening to so much advice. ² 

Let them take their stand –

the ones who see omens in the sky,

who gaze at the stars,

who make monthly predictions –

let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you! ³ 

Daniel 2:2

2:2 The king issued an order ⁴  to summon the magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and wise men ⁵  in order to explain his dreams to him. ⁶  So they came and awaited the king’s instructions. ⁷ 

Daniel 2:10

2:10 The wise men replied to the king, “There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king’s secret, ⁸  for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man.

[19:31]  ¹ sn The prohibition here concerns those who would seek special knowledge through the spirits of the dead, whether the dead in general or dead relatives in particular (i.e., familiar spirits; see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 321, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 134). Cf. Lev 20:6 below.

[47:13]  ² tn Heb “you are tired because of the abundance of your advice.”

[47:13]  ³ tn Heb “let them stand and rescue you – the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make known by months – from those things which are coming upon you.”

[2:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “said.” So also in v. 12.

[2:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The term Chaldeans (Hebrew כַּשְׂדִּים, kasdim) is used in the book of Daniel both in an ethnic sense and, as here, to refer to a caste of Babylonian wise men and astrologers.

[2:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “to explain to the king his dreams.”

[2:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “stood before the king.”

[2:10]  ⁸ tn Aram “matter, thing.”