Occult Practices

⁹ When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate^(A) the detestable ways^(B) of the nations there.

²⁴ There were even male shrine prostitutes^(A) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable^(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

³ For you have spent enough time in the past^(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.^(B)