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Exodus 22:18

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— —Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— A sorceress, shalt thou not suffer to live.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 'A witch thou dost not keep alive.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— You shall not suffer a witch to live.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Ye shall not save the lives of sorcerers.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Thou shalt not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
suffer a witch y3784
[3784] Standard
כָּשַׁף
kashaph
{kaw-shaf'}
A primitive root; properly to whisper a spell, that is, to inchant or practise magic.
z8764
<8764> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Participle (See H8813)
Count - 685
to live. 2421
{2421} Prime
חָיַה
chayah
{khaw-yaw'}
A prim root (compare H2331, H2424); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively to revive.
z8762
<8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 2447
x3784
(3784) Complement
כָּשַׁף
kashaph
{kaw-shaf'}
A primitive root; properly to whisper a spell, that is, to inchant or practise magic.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Exodus 22:16-24.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Exodus 22:18

Witchcraft not only gives that honour to the devil which is due to God alone, but bids defiance to the divine providence, wages war with God's government, puts his work into the devil's hand expecting him to do good and evil. By our law, consulting, covenanting with, invocating or employing any evil spirit to any intent whatever, and exercising any enchantment, charm, or sorcery, whereby hurt shall be done to any person, is made felony, without benefit of clergy; also pretending to tell where goods lost or stolen may be found, is an iniquity punishable by the judge, and the second offence with death. This was the case in former times. But we are wiser than our fore — fathers. We believe, no witch ever did live! At least, not for these thousand years.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance

Leviticus 19:26 Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Leviticus 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 20:27 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.
Deuteronomy 18:10-11 There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, ... Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
1 Samuel 28:9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Acts 8:9-11 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: ... And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
Acts 16:16-19 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: ... And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew [them] into the marketplace unto the rulers,
Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.
Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Revelation 22:15 For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Lv 19:26, 31; 20:6, 27. Dt 18:10. 1S 28:3, 9. Is 19:3. Ac 8:9; 16:16; 19:19. Ga 5:20. Rv 22:15.

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