“And the spirit of Mitsrayim shall vanish within them, and I destroy their counsel. And they shall seek the idols and the mutterers, the mediums and the sorcerers.
Exodus 22:18 - The Scriptures 2009 “Do not allow a practiser of witchcraft to live. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not allow a woman to live who practices sorcery. American Standard Version (1901) Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live. Common English Bible Don’t allow a female sorcerer to live. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall not permit practitioners of the black arts to live. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live. |
“And the spirit of Mitsrayim shall vanish within them, and I destroy their counsel. And they shall seek the idols and the mutterers, the mediums and the sorcerers.
For they are prophesying falsehood to you, to remove you far from your land. And I shall drive you out, and you shall perish.
So do not listen to your prophets, or to your diviners, or to your dreamers, or to your observers of clouds, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “Do not serve the sovereign of Baḇel.”
‘And do not have intercourse with any beast, to defile yourself with it. And a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it, it is a perversion.
‘Do not eat meat with the blood. Do not practise divination or magic.
‘Do not turn to mediums, and do not seek after spiritists to be defiled by them. I am יהוה your Elohim.
‘And a man or a woman in whom there is a medium, or who are spiritists, shall certainly be put to death, they are to stone them with stones. Their blood is upon them.’ ”
‘And the being who turns to mediums, and to spiritists, to go whoring after them, I shall set My face against that being and cut him off from the midst of his people.
And many of those who had practised magic brought their books together, burning them before all. And they reckoned up the value of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
idolatry, drug sorcery, hatred, quarrels, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
Cursed is he who lies with any beast.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕn!’
“But outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood.
And Shemu’ĕl had died, and all Yisra’ĕl had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Sha’ul had put away the mediums and the spiritists from the land.
But the woman said to him, “Look, you know what Sha’ul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the spiritists from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to put me to death?”