Genesis 44:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Is it not the very one from which my master drinks and which he uses for divination? What you have done is wrong.’”

Cross References

Genesis 30:27

Laban answered him: “If you will please! I have learned through divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

Genesis 44:15

“How could you do such a thing?” Joseph asked them. “Did you not know that such a man as I could discern by divination what happened?”

Genesis 44:6

When the steward overtook them and repeated these words to them,

1 Kings 20:33

Hearing this as a good omen, the men quickly took him at his word and said, “Ben-hadad is your brother.” He answered, “Go and get him.” When Ben-hadad came out to him, the king had him mount his chariot.

2 Kings 21:6

He immolated his child by fire. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.

Leviticus 19:26

Do not eat anything with the blood still in it. Do not recite charms or practice soothsaying.