Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Neither shall ye use enchantment - lo thenachashu . Conjecture itself can do little towards a proper explanation of the terms used in this verse. nachash ; See note at Genesis 3:1 (note), we translate serpent, and with very little propriety; but though the word may not signify a serpent in that place, it has that signification in others. Possibly, therefore, the superstition here prohibited may be what the Greeks called Ophiomanteia, or divination by serpents.
Nor observe times - velo teonenu , ye shall not divine by clouds, which was also a superstition much in practice among the heathens, as well as divination by the flight of birds. What these prohibitions may particularly refer to, we know not. See Clarke' s note on Genesis 41:8.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Deuteronomy 18:10
2 Kings 21:6
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