Deuteronomy 18:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, 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 shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead?
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.
Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
And the soul that turneth unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
And it came to pass, as we were going to the place of prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.
And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Divine unto me, I pray thee, by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomsoever I shall name unto thee.