Today, I am reading and commenting on  Deuteronomy 18-20.

Moses tells the Israelites that they must not imitate the detestable practices of the nations who in habit the land they are about to enter.  Then he lists some of the practices which they are not to imitate.  These practices are divination, sorcery, witchcraft, interpreting omens, consulting the dead, and sacrificing your children.  Moses told the Israelites that those practices were why God was going to drive those people out of the land before the Israelites.  I find the fact that this passage considers sacrificing children to be on par with divination and sorcery strange.  When I was young I was taught that divination, sorcery, interpreting omens, etc. were foolish and silly, but that sacrificing children was an horrific evil.  Perhaps the failure of the generation before me to recognize the evil of practicing divination led to so many in my generation, and younger, to no longer recognize the evil of sacrificing children.  Certainly, as sacrificing children has become more acceptable, so too has seeking to divine the future by various means and to cast spells has also become more acceptable.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.