Leviticus 20:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ “A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritualist shall be put to death; they shall be stoned to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ A man also or 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ A man or woman who is a medium and has a familiar spirit or is a wizard shall surely be put to death, be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁷ If someone, whether male or female, is a medium with the dead or a diviner, they must be executed. They will be stoned; their blood is on their own head.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ A man or a woman, in whom there is an oracle-like or a divining spirit, shall be put to death. They shall stone them. So let their blood be upon them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die. They shall stone them. Their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:27 Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:6

He made his son pass through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

Exodus 22:18

“You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live.

Leviticus 19:31

“Do not turn to mediums and spiritualists; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:2

“Say further to the Israelites: “Any of the Israelites or of the aliens who reside in Israel who give any of their offspring to Molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone them to death.

Leviticus 20:6

“If any turn to mediums or spiritualists, prostituting themselves to them, I will set my face against them and will cut them off from the people.

Leviticus 24:14

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and let all who were within hearing lay their hands on his head, and let the whole congregation stone him.

Numbers 15:35

Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him outside the camp.”

Acts 16:16

One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a female slave who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling.

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

1 Samuel 28:3

Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. Saul had expelled the mediums and the wizards from the land.