and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;
Exodus 22:18 - English Standard Version 2016 “You shall not permit 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. |
and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;
For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’
And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.
“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”
“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
“‘Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.
The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?”