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Leviticus 20:6

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums¹

20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits² to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face³ against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 22:11

Context
22:11 but if a priest buys a person with his own money,⁴ that person⁵ may eat the holy offerings,⁶ and those born in the priest’s⁷ own house may eat his food.⁸

¹sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.

²tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.

³tn Heb “I will give my faces.”

⁴tn Heb “and a priest, if he buys a person, the property of his silver.”

⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person whom the priest has purchased) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn Heb “eat it”; the referent (the holy offerings) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷tn Heb “his”; the referent (the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Heb “and the [slave] born of his house, they shall eat in his food.” The LXX, Syriac, Tg. Onq., Tg. Ps.-J., and some mss of Smr have plural “ones born,” which matches the following plural “they” pronoun and the plural form of the verb.

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