Genesis 44:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he divines? You have done wrong in so doing.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 30:27

But Laban said to him, “If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you;

Genesis 44:15

Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?”

Genesis 44:6

When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.

1 Kings 20:33

Now the men were watching for an omen, and they quickly took it up from him and said, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go and bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

2 Kings 21:6

And he burned his son as an offering, and practiced soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.