Exodus Chapter 22 verse 18 Holy Bible
Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
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Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.
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-- Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
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"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
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`A witch thou dost not keep alive.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Law against witchcraft. Witchcraft was professedly a league with powers in rebellion against God. How far it was delusion, how far imposture, how far a real conspiracy with the powers of evil, cannot now be known. Let the most rationalistic view be taken, and still there was in the practice an absolute renunciation of religion, and of the authority of Jehovah. Wizards (Leviticus 19:31) and witches were, therefore, under the Jewish theocracy, like idolaters and blasphemers, to be put to death.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.--The word translated "witch" in this passage is the feminine singular of that rendered by "sorcerers" in Exodus 7:11, and means "a mutterer of charms." The use of the feminine form can only be accounted for by supposing that, practically, witchcraft was at the time mainly professed by females. Whether "witches" had actual help from evil spirits, or only professed to work magical effects by their aid, the sin against God was the same. Jehovah was renounced, and a power other than His invoked and upheld. Witchcraft was as much rebellion against God as idolatry or blasphemy, and deserved the same punishment.
