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?”
“Otherwise I would have been untrue to my own life. For no matter is hidden from the sovereign, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.”
And it came to be, when the sovereign of Yisra’ĕ
‘Do not turn to mediums, and do not seek after spiritists to be defiled by them. I am יהוה your Elohim.
And Sha’ul swore to her by יהוה, saying, “As יהוה lives, no punishment comes upon you for this matter.”
And Shemu’ĕ