Exodus 22:18
New King James Version
18 (A)“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
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Leviticus 19:31
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31 ‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after (A)them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
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Leviticus 20:27
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27 (A)‘A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’ ”
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Deuteronomy 18:10
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10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter (A)pass[a] through the fire, (B)or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
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- Deuteronomy 18:10 Be burned as an offering to an idol
Deuteronomy 18:11
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11 (A)or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or (B)one who calls up the dead.
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1 Samuel 15:23
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23 For rebellion is as the sin of [a]witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
(A)He also has rejected you from being king.”
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- 1 Samuel 15:23 divination
1 Samuel 28:9
New King James Version
9 Then the woman said to him, “Look, you know what Saul has done, how he has (A)cut off the mediums and the spiritists from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?”
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