Deuteronomy 18:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. American Standard Version (1901) or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Common English Bible or spell caster; who converses with ghosts or spirits or communicates with the dead. Catholic Public Domain Version nor one who uses spells, nor one who consults demonic spirits, nor a diviner, nor one who seeks the truth from the dead. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune-tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead. |
And when they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.
“Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.”
“If a person turns to mediums and wizards, playing the harlot after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by soothsaying.
So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments, and went, he and two men with him; and they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Divine for me by a spirit, and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.”