As other answers have noted, divers can be seen as an archaic spelling for the modern word diverse. However, the OED gives five senses for divers (my paraphrase).

1. Corresponds to the modern use of diversity, as in gender diversity or diversity jurisdiction.

2. Evil or adverse. What are his methods? Obsolete since the 1600s.

3. Are multiple or different? What Described in the OED as “Somewhat archaic, but well known in legal and scriptural phraseology. As

4. an adverb. ” ” As an adjective. What is the distinction in semantics for Osolete, and not semantically distinct from the other three senses?

Diver places (show links to Arabic translations) means multiple places (see note 1). If the people of Israel need an OED, the OED also

provides a biblical citation: And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being divers one from another), but also royal wine in abundance according to the state of the king (Esther 1:7, KJV).

As to the legal variant of sense 3, the phrases divers other places, divers other persons and divers other times were traditionally used in English criminal indictments. It is understood

that T.B., together with divers other evil-disposed persons, to the number of one thousand and more, whose names are to the Jurors aforsaid as yet unknown… did then and there and on divers other days and times as well before as afterwards in a violent and tumultuous manner, at, &c, &c? aforesaid, and divers other places… These

phrases continue to be used in some common law jurisdictions, such as Victoria (at least as late as 2012 ). In Dickson v The Queen HCA 30 : The particulars

of the offence stated that at Melbourne and divers other places in Victoria between 22 December 2003 and 20 January 2004 the appellant had conspired with three named persons… and they had agreed to pursue a course of conduct which would involve the commission by them of an offence .

The dagger is used in the OED to mark obsolescence.