Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will enquire of worthless idols, ghosts, mediums, and spiritists.
Exodus 22:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Do not allow a sorceress to live. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will enquire of worthless idols, ghosts, mediums, and spiritists.
They are prophesying a lie to you so that you will be removed from your land. I will banish you, and you will perish.
So you should not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, fortune-tellers, or sorcerers who say to you, “Don’t serve the king of Babylon! ”
You are not to have sexual intercourse with any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.
‘You are not to eat anything with blood in it. , You are not to practise divination or witchcraft.
‘Do not turn to mediums , or consult spiritists, , or you will be defiled by them; I am the Lord your God.
‘A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their death is their own fault.’
‘Whoever turns to mediums , or spiritists and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.
while many of those who had practised magic collected their books and burned them in front of everyone. So they calculated their value and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
“The one who has sexual intercourse with any animal is cursed.” And all the people will say, “Amen! ”
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.
By this time Samuel had died, all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his city, and Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.
But the woman said to him, ‘You surely know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why are you setting a trap for me to get me killed? ’