³¹ ‘Do not turn to ^[a](A)mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

⁶ ‘As for the person who turns to ^[a](A)mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

Spiritism Forbidden

⁹ “When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to ^[a](A)imitate the detestable things of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone ^(B)who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one ^(C)who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or one who casts a spell, ^(D)or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

^6 (A)He made his son pass through the fire, ^(B)practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger.

²⁴ Moreover, Josiah ^[a]removed ^(A)the mediums and the spiritists and the ^(B)teraphim and ^(C)the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, ^(D)that he might ^[b]confirm the words of the law which were written ^(E)in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

^6 (A)He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and ^(B)dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

¹⁹ When they say to you, “^(A)Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people ^(B)consult their God? Should they ^(C)consult the dead on behalf of the living?