Parallel Verses

Amplified

“You shall not allow a woman who practices sorcery to live.

New American Standard Bible

“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

King James Version

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Holman Bible

“You must not allow a sorceress to live.

International Standard Version

"You are not to allow a sorceress to live.

A Conservative Version

Thou shall not allow a sorceress to live.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.

Bible in Basic English

Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.

Darby Translation

thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not preserve alive a sorceress.

King James 2000

You shall not allow a witch to live.

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'You will not let a witch live.

Modern King James verseion

You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

NET Bible

"You must not allow a sorceress to live.

New Heart English Bible

"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

The Emphasized Bible

A sorceress, shalt thou not suffer to live.

Webster

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

World English Bible

"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

Youngs Literal Translation

'A witch thou dost not keep alive.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Thou shalt not suffer a witch
כּשׁף 
Kashaph 
Usage: 6

Context Readings

Capital Offenses

17 If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must [still] pay money equivalent to the dowry of virgins. 18 “You shall not allow a woman who practices sorcery to live. 19 “Whoever lies with an animal must be put to death.



Cross References

Leviticus 20:27

‘A man or woman who is a medium [who pretends to consult the dead] or who is a spiritist shall most certainly be put to death, and be stoned with stones; their blood is on them.’”

1 Samuel 28:3

Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and the spiritists (soothsayers) from the land.

Leviticus 19:31

‘Do not turn to mediums [who pretend to consult the dead] or to spiritists [who have spirits of divination]; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 18:10-11

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire [as a sacrifice], one who uses divination and fortune-telling, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

Leviticus 19:26

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination [using omens or witchcraft] or soothsaying.

Leviticus 20:6

‘As for the person who turns to mediums [who consult the dead] or to spiritists, to play the prostitute after them, I shall set My face against that person and will cut him off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them].

1 Samuel 28:9

But the woman said to him, “See here, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off (eliminated) those who are mediums and spiritists from the land. So why are you laying a trap for my life, to cause my death?”

Isaiah 19:3


“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will become exhausted within them and emptied out;
And I will confuse their strategy,
So that they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
And mediums and soothsayers.

Acts 8:9-11

Now there was a man named Simon, who previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

Acts 16:16-19

It happened that as we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination [that is, a demonic spirit claiming to foretell the future and discover hidden knowledge], and she brought her owners a good profit by fortune-telling.

Acts 19:19

And many of those who had practiced magical arts collected their books and [throwing book after book on the pile] began burning them in front of everyone. They calculated their value and found it to be 50,000 pieces of silver.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, hostility, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions [that promote heresies],

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs [the godless, the impure, those of low moral character] and the sorcerers [with their intoxicating drugs, and magic arts], and the immoral persons [the perverted, the molesters, and the adulterers], and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying (deception, cheating).

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