Deuteronomy 18:9

9 And when thou shalt have entered into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 18:9 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 18:9

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth
thee
The land of Canaan, often thus described, to express the goodness of God in bestowing it on them, as a mere favour of his, without any desert of theirs; and so typical of the heavenly Canaan, or eternal life, which is the free gift of God through Christ:

thou shall not learn to do after the abominations of these nations;
the seven nations which before inhabited it; they might learn, as Jarchi observes, to know how corrupt their works were, and to show to their children, that they might not do so; but they were not to learn them so as to practise them, but to have them in the utmost abhorrence, as being abominable to God, and which should be so to them; some of which are as follow.

Deuteronomy 18:9 In-Context

7 he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord thy God.

8 He shall eat an allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property.

9 And when thou shalt have entered into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

10 There shall not be found in thee one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,

11 a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead.