Deuteronomy 18:11 - English Standard Version 2016 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, Matoleo zaidiKing 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. |
And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
“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.
As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.
So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.”