Sorcery Forbidden
Deuteronomy 18:11
In 11 translations
- BSB
- casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
- KJV
- Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- WEB
- or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- ASV
- or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- LSV
- and a charmer, and one inquiring from a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking to the dead.
- YLT
- and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead.
- DBY
- or a charmer, or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth the dead.
- DRC
- Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.
- GNV
- Or a charmer, or that counselleth with spirits, or a soothsaier, or that asketh counsel at ye dead.
- JPS
- or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.
- LXXE
- a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, an observer of signs, questioning the dead.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְחֹבֵ֖ר חָ֑בֶר וְשֹׁאֵ֥ל אוֹב֙ וְיִדְּעֹנִ֔י וְדֹרֵ֖שׁ אֶל־הַמֵּתִֽים׃
- LXX-Br
- ἐπαείδων ἐπαοιδὴν, ἐγγαστρίμυθος, καὶ τερατοσκόπος, ἐπερωτῶν τοὺς νεκρούς.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
DivinationDreamsNecromancyCharmerConsultCharmers and CharmingEn-Dor, Witch ofFamiliar spiritFamiliar SpiritsMagic
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Samuel 28:11–14“Whom shall I bring up for you?” the woman asked. “Bring up Samuel,” he replied. But when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!” “Do not be…
- Leviticus 19:31You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).