Exodus 22:18
You must not allow a sorceress to live.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
In Context
19Whoever sleeps with a beast must surely be put to death.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:23Do not sleep with any animal and defile yourself with it. No woman must consider sleeping with any animal. This would be perversion.
Leviticus 19:31Do not turn to those who talk with the dead or with spirits. Do not seek them out, or they will defile you. I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 20:27A man or a woman who talks with the dead or who talks with spirits must certainly be put to death. The people must stone them with stones. They are guilty and deserve to die.'”
Deuteronomy 27:21'May the man be cursed who sleeps with any kind of beast.' Then all the people must say, 'Amen.'
1 Samuel 28:9The woman said to him, “See, you know what Saul has done, how he has banned from the land those who talk with the dead or with spirits. So why are you setting a trap for my life, to make me die?”
Acts 8:9But there was a certain man in the city named Simon, who had earlier been practicing sorcery; he used to astonish the people of Samaria, while claiming that he was an important person.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:17-25
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22… Read the whole commentary →