One of God’s chosen people being involved in the occult or magic was punishable by death in the Old Testament. However, the Babylonian wise men were not all sorcerers, and even those that were probably did not know of the prohibitions in the Bible.
Yeyote miongoni mwa watu waliochaguliwa na Mungu aliyeshiriki kwenye vitendo vya uchawi alipata adhabu ya kifo kwenye Agano la Kale. Hata hivyo, si watu wenye hekima wa Babeli waliokuwa wachawi, na hata wale waliokuwa wachawi hawakujua kuwa Biblia ilikataza.