Laws of Social Responsibility
Exodus 22:18
In 11 translations
- BSB
- You must not allow a sorceress to live.
- KJV
- ¶ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
- WEB
- “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
- ASV
- Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
- LSV
- You do not keep a witch alive.
- YLT
- 'A witch thou dost not keep alive.
- DBY
- — Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
- DRC
- Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.
- GNV
- Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue.
- JPS22:17
- Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
- LXXE22:17
- Ye shall not save the lives of sorcerers.
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Original-language editions
- WLC22:17
- מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה לֹ֥א תְחַיֶּֽה׃KJV:Exod.22.18
- LXX-Br22:17
- Φαρμακοὺς οὐ περιποιήσετε.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
DivinationPunishmentsWitchBoreWitchcraftHammurabi, Code ofCovenant, Book of theBlindness, JudicialOrdinanceMagic; Magician
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Leviticus 20:27A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’”
- Deuteronomy 18:10–11Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
- 1 Samuel 28:3Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.
- Leviticus 20:6Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
- 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.
- Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Isaiah 19:3Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
- Leviticus 19:26You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
- Galatians 5:20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
- Acts 19:19And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
- 1 Samuel 28:9But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”
- Acts 8:9–11Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, heeded his words and…
- Acts 16:16–19One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and the rest of us,…
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 22:17 in some Bibles
- 22:18 in most Bibles