Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. The medium and spiritist prohibition addresses the seeking of contact with the dead through unauthorized spiritual means. The defiled by them warning grounds the prohibition in the purity framework: contact with the dead is the most severe form of ritual impurity in the Levitical system, and the attempt to communicate with the dead through mediums defiles the living person. I am the Lord your God grounds the prohibition: the living God who is Israel's God does not communicate through the dead.

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