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Deuteronomy 18:11
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cast spells, consult a medium or a spiritist, or inquire of the dead.
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults a spirit of the dead, or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead.
or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,
Don't let anyone try to control others with magic, and don't let them be mediums or try to talk with the spirits of dead people.
one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.
or one who casts a charm or spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or a necromancer [who seeks the dead].
or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead.
Or a charmer, or that counselleth wt spirits, or a soothsaier, or yt asketh counsel at ye dead.
or one who is an enchanter or a medium or a spiritist or one who inquires of the dead.
a spell-caster, a consulter of ghosts or spirits, or a necromancer.
or a charmer, or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth the dead.
Don't let anyone try to put magic spells on other people. Don't let any of your people become a medium or a wizard. And no one should try to talk with someone who has died.
Or a charmer or a consulter with familiar spirits or a sorcerer or a necromancer.
or charms, and don't let them consult the spirits of the dead.
or a magic charmer, or one consulting mediums, or a spirit-knower, or one inquiring of the dead.
or a witch, or a coniurer, or soythsayer, or an expounder of tokens, or yt axeth eny thinge of the deed.
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.
Or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or that coucelleth with spirites, or a soothsayer, or that asketh counsayle of the dead.
or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wyzard, or a Necromancer.
a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead.
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
casts spells, consults a medium or familiar spirit, or inquires of the dead.
and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead.
or one casting spells, or one requesting a spirit, or a wizard, or one inquiring of the dead.
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
or cast spells, or function as mediums or psychics, or call forth the spirits of the dead.
or uses secret power on people, or helps people talk to spirits, or talks to spirits himself, or talks with the dead.
or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.
Or who bindeth with spells, - Or who asketh of a familiar spirit or an oracle, Or who seeketh unto the dead.
Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.
or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
or a necromancer: 1 Samuel 28:11-14
Reciprocal: Exodus 22:18 - General 1 Samuel 15:23 - witchcraft 1 Samuel 28:3 - put away 1 Samuel 28:7 - a familiar spirit 1 Samuel 28:8 - I pray thee Psalms 58:5 - charming never so wisely Isaiah 8:19 - Seek Isaiah 65:4 - remain
Cross-References
Abraham felde doun on his face, and leiyede in his hert, and seide, Gessist thou, whethir a sone schal be borun to a man of an hundrid yeer, and Sara of nynti yeer schal bere child?
Abraham was of nynti yeer and nyne whanne he circumsidide the fleisch of his yeerd,
Forsothe bothe weren olde, and of greet age, and wommans termes ceessiden to be maad to Sare.
And she leiyede, seiynge pryueli, after that Y wexede eld, and my lord is eld, schal Y yyue diligence to lust?
sithen he schal be in to a greet folk and moost strong, and alle naciouns of erthe schulen be blessid in hym?
and schal se whether thei han fillid in werk the cry that cam to me, that Y wite whether it is not so.
My lord, be not wrooth that Y may not rise bifore thee, for it bifelde now to me bi the custom of wymmen; so the bisynesse of the sekere was scorned.
A womman that suffrith the fletyng out of blood, whanne the moneth cometh ayen, schal be departid bi seuene daies; ech man that touchith hir schal be vncleene `til to euentid,
And thei hadden no child, for Elizabeth was bareyn, and bothe weren of grete age in her daies.
And Zacarie seide to the aungel, Wherof schal Y wite this? for Y am eld, and my wijf hath gon fer in to hir daies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Or a charmer,.... That pretends to cure diseases by charms, or a charmer of serpents; according to Jarchi, one that gathers together serpents and scorpions, and other animals, into one place; with which agree the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem,
"which bind serpents and scorpions, and all kind of creeping things;''
but, according to Aben Ezra, one that says certain words to gather demons together:
or a consulter with familiar spirits; or the inquirer of "Ob", or the bottle, which the Jews interpret of Python, or one that has the spirit of Python; see Acts 16:16, a ventriloquist, one that spoke or seemed to speak out of his belly, or from under his armpits; so it is said in the Misnah h of Ob, this is Python, one that speaks out of his arm holes; agreeably to which, Jarchi says, this is that sort of witchcraft which is called Python, and he speaks from his arm holes, and brings up the dead thither: of Baal Ob, or the master of the bottle, say some Jewish writers, one way he uses is, he takes the skull of a dead man, the flesh of which is consumed from it, and he hides it and burns incense to it, and mutters words by it, and hears from it, as if from a dead man k: or a wizard: a knowing one, as the word signifies, such an one as we call a cunning man; Acts 16:16- :
or a necromancer that inquiries of the dead, or seeks instruction from them, as the Targum of Jerusalem. Aben Ezra describes him as one that goes to burying grounds, and takes the bone of a dead man, and because of his wild imagination there appears to him the likeness of forms; or as Maimonides l, better still, he is one that fasts and sleeps in graveyards, and utters words; and, according to his imagination, sees future things in dreams.
h Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 7. k Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. l In ib.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A charmer - i. e., one who fascinates and subdues noxious animals or men, such as the famous serpent-charmers of the East Psalms 58:4-5.
A consulter with familiar spirits ... a wizard - Compare Leviticus 19:31 note.
Recromancer - literally, “one who interrogates the dead.” The purpose of the text is obviously to group together all the known words belonging to the practices in question. Compare 2 Chronicles 33:6.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Deuteronomy 18:11. A charmer — חבר חבר chober chaber, one who uses spells; a peculiar conjunction, as the term implies, of words, or things, tying knots, c., for the purposes of divination. This was a custom among the heathen, as we learn from the following verses: -
Necte TRIBUS NODIS ternos, Amarylli, colores:
Necte, Amarylli, modo et Veneris, dic, vincula necto.
Virg. Ecl. viii., ver. 77.
"Knit with three KNOTS the fillets, knit them straight;
Then say, these KNOTS to love I consecrate."
DRYDEN.
A consulter with familiar spirits — שאל אוב shoel ob, a Pythoness, one who inquires by the means of one spirit to get oracular answers from another of a superior order. Leviticus 19:31.
A wizard — ידעני yiddeoni, a wise one, a knowing one. Wizard was formerly considered as the masculine of witch, both practising divination by similar means. Exodus 22:13, and Leviticus 19:31.
Or a necromancer. — דרש אל המתים doresh el hammethim, one who seeks from or inquires of the dead. Such as the witch at Endor, who professed to evoke the dead, in order to get them to disclose the secrets of the spiritual world.
