Deuteronomy 18:11
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Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.

or a necromancer

1 Samuel 28:11-14 And the woman said to him: Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. . . .

Context
Sorcery Forbidden
10Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard, 11Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.12For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.…
Cross References
Acts 16:16
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain girl having a pythonical spirit met us, who brought to her masters much gain by divining.

Exodus 22:18
Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.

Leviticus 19:31
Go not aside after wizards: neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:27
A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die. They shall stone them. Their blood be upon them.

1 Samuel 28:8
Then he disguised himself: and put on other clothes, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and he said to her: Divine to me by thy divining spirit, and bring me up him whom I shall tell thee.

Lexicon
casts spells,
וְחֹבֵ֖ר (wə·ḥō·ḇêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2266: To unite, be joined, to tie a magic knot or spell, to charm

consults
וְשֹׁאֵ֥ל (wə·šō·’êl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7592: To inquire, to request, to demand

a medium
אוֹב֙ (’ō·wḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 178: A bottle (made from animal skin), a necromancer

or familiar spirit,
וְיִדְּעֹנִ֔י (wə·yid·də·‘ō·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3049: A knowing one, a conjurer, a ghost

or inquires
וְדֹרֵ֖שׁ (wə·ḏō·rêš)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1875: To tread, frequent, to follow, to seek, ask, to worship

of
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

the dead.
הַמֵּתִֽים׃ (ham·mê·ṯîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill


Additional Translations
casts spells, consults a medium or familiar spirit, or inquires 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.

a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead.

or a charmer, or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python, or a soothsayer, or one that consulteth 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 a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead.
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