Musar for Sotah 24:12

והיינו דאמר רבי אלעזר מאי דכתיב (ישעיהו ח, יט) וכי יאמרו אליכם דרשו אל האובות ואל הידעונים המצפצפים והמהגים צופין ואינם יודעין מה צופין מהגים ואינן יודעים מה מהגים

That is what R. Eleazar said: What means the text: And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. VIII, 19. ');">¹⁷</span> They foresee and know not what they foresee; they mutter and know not what they mutter. They saw that Israel's saviour would be punished through water; so they arose and decreed, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. I, 22. ');">¹⁸</span>

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