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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Saul Consults a Medium(A)

Now (B)Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in (C)Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had put (D)the mediums and the spiritists out of the land.

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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, 11 (C)or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or (D)one who calls up the dead.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:10 Be burned as an offering to an idol

‘And (A)the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.

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15 [a]But (A)outside are (B)dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

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  1. Revelation 22:15 NU, M omit But

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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26 ‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.

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The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst;
I will destroy their counsel,
And they will (A)consult the idols and the charmers,
The mediums and the sorcerers.

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20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

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19 Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.

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The Sorcerer’s Profession of Faith

But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously (A)practiced [a]sorcery in the city and (B)astonished the [b]people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, 10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.” 11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his [c]sorceries for a long time.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 8:9 magic
  2. Acts 8:9 Or nation
  3. Acts 8:11 magic arts

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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Paul and Silas Imprisoned

16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl (A)possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters (B)much profit by fortune-telling. 17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” 18 And this she did for many days.

But Paul, (C)greatly [a]annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” (D)And he came out that very hour. 19 But (E)when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and (F)dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 16:18 distressed

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