God had explicitly warned them: “There should not be found in you... anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead.
אלוהים הזהירם מפורשות: ” לא יימצא בך...