Deuteronomy 18:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
When they tell you, *Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:* shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
*'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
*'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
*'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'*
*'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
Sha'ul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whoever I shall name to you.