Leviticus 20:27
 Leviticus 20:27 
New International Version (© 2011)
"'A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.'"

King James Bible
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

American Standard Version
A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

Young's Literal Translation
And a man or woman -- when there is in them a familiar spirit, or who are wizards -- are certainly put to death; with stones they stone them; their blood is on them.'

Leviticus 20:27 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

A familiar spirit - A spirit or demon, which, by magical rites, is supposed to be bound to appear at the call of his employer. See the notes on Genesis 41:8; Exodus 7:11 (note), Exodus 7:22 (note), Exodus 7:25 (note); and Leviticus 19:31 (note). From the accounts we have of the abominations both of Egypt and Canaan, we may blush for human nature; for wherever it is without cultivation, and without the revelation of God, it is every thing that is vile in principle and detestable in practice. Nor would any part of the habitable globe materially differ from Egypt and Canaan, had they not that rule of righteousness, the revealed Law of God, and had not life and immortality been brought to light by the Gospel among them. From these accounts, for which we could easily find parallels in ancient Greece and Italy, we may see the absolute need of a Divine revelation, without which man, even in his best estate, differs little from the brute.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

a familiar

Leviticus 20:6 And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them...

Leviticus 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Exodus 22:18 You shall not suffer a witch to live.

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination...

1 Samuel 28:7-9 Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman that has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her...

their blood

Leviticus 20:9 For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother...

Leviticus 20:27 Parallel Commentaries
Blood Bloodguiltiness Death Divination Divineth Familiar Ghost Heads Makes Medium Spirit Spiritist Spirits Stone Stoned Stones Surely Use Wizard Wizards Wonder-Worker
Blood Bloodguiltiness Death Divination Divineth Familiar Ghost Heads Makes Medium Spirit Spiritist Spirits Stone Stoned Stones Surely Use Wizard Wizards Wonder-Worker
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Acts 16:16 Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.
Exodus 22:18 "Do not allow a sorceress to live.
Leviticus 19:31 "'Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:2 "Say to the Israelites: 'Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him.
Leviticus 24:14 "Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.
Numbers 15:35 Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp."
Deuteronomy 21:21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.