Leviticus 20:6
New English Translation
Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums[a]
6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits[b] to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face[c] against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.
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- Leviticus 20:6 sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.
- Leviticus 20:6 tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.
- Leviticus 20:6 tn Heb “I will give my faces.”
Leviticus 20:6
New International Version
6 “‘I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people.(A)
Leviticus 20:27
New English Translation
Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums
27 “‘A man or woman who[a] has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit[b] must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones;[c] their blood guilt is on themselves.’”
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- Leviticus 20:27 tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, and some Targum mss have the relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (ʾasher, “who, which”), rather than the MT’s כִּי (ki, “for, because, that”).
- Leviticus 20:27 tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirit” in Lev 19:31 above.
- Leviticus 20:27 tc Smr and LXX have “you [plural] shall pelt them with stones.”tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning, but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (see the note on v. 2 above).sn At first glance Lev 20:27 appears to be out of place but, on closer examination, one could argue that it constitutes the back side of an envelope around the case laws in 20:9-21, with Lev 20:6 forming the front of the envelope (note also that execution of mediums and spiritists by stoning in v. 27 is not explicitly stated in v. 6). This creates a chiastic structure: prohibition against mediums and spiritists (vv. 6 and 27), variations of the holiness formula (vv. 7 and 25-26), and exhortations to obey the Lord’s statutes (and judgments; vv. 8 and 22-24). Again, in the middle are the case laws (vv. 9-21).
Leviticus 20:27
New International Version
27 “‘A man or woman who is a medium(A) or spiritist among you must be put to death.(B) You are to stone them;(C) their blood will be on their own heads.’”
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