“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.”
A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you is to be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads. The final penalty of the chapter — death by stoning for mediums and spiritists — revisits the prohibition of Leviticus 19:31. The chapter that opened with the death penalty for child sacrifice closes with the death penalty for unauthorized spiritual contact: both violations are attempts to access divine power outside the covenant's authorized channels. 1 Samuel 28:3 records Saul's earlier expulsion of mediums and spiritists from the land, and 1 Samuel 28:7–8 records his desperate violation of that prohibition on the night before his death.
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