EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Shoftim · Passuk 18:14
For these nations that you are dispossessing listen to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Eternal your God has not given you thus.
Chazal / classical source (beyond TT-numbered main-ring units): Sifrei Devarim 173.
Lemma: אֶל מְעֹנְנִים וְאֶל קֹסְמִים יִשְׁמָעוּ.
English: ‘They listen to soothsayers and diviners’ – that is their way.
Derash characterizing the nations (Sifrei) — their entire approach to knowledge of the future is through forbidden arts.
The nations being dispossessed characteristically turn to soothsayers and diviners; this is the path from which Yisrael is to be distinguished.