Exodus 22:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 28:3 : 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel, after weeping for him, had put his body in its last resting-place in Ramah, his town. And Saul had put away from the land all those who had control of spirits and who made use of secret arts.
  • Lev 20:27 : 27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.
  • Deut 18:10-11 : 10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker, 11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.
  • Lev 19:31 : 31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.
  • Lev 20:6 : 6 And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.
  • Lev 19:26 : 26 Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.
  • 1 Sam 28:9 : 9 And the woman said to him, But you have knowledge of what Saul has done, how he has put away out of the land those who have control of spirits and the users of secret arts: why would you, by a trick, put me in danger of death?
  • Isa 19:3 : 3 And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.
  • Acts 8:9-9 : 9 But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man: 10 To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great. 11 And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.
  • Acts 16:16-19 : 16 And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power. 17 She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation. 18 And this she did on a number of days. But Paul was greatly troubled and, turning, said to the spirit, I give you orders in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out that very hour. 19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;
  • Acts 19:19 : 19 And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:9-12
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    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

    10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,

    11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.

    12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

  • 27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

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    19 Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death.

    20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

  • 12 And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.

  • 5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

  • Deut 13:8-11
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    8 Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;

    9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

    10 Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

    11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

  • Lev 18:20-22
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    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

    22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

  • Lev 20:14-16
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    14 And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

    15 And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.

    16 And if a woman goes near a beast and has sex relations with it, you will put an end to the woman and the beast: their blood will be on them.

  • 31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • 6 And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.

  • Deut 17:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

    2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • 20 If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • 9 And the woman said to him, But you have knowledge of what Saul has done, how he has put away out of the land those who have control of spirits and the users of secret arts: why would you, by a trick, put me in danger of death?

  • 26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • 26 Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

  • 17 If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.

  • Num 31:17-18
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    69%

    17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

    18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

  • 22 Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

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    21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

    22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • 24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • 10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

  • 31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

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    13 Do not put anyone to death without cause.

    14 Do not be false to the married relation.

  • 32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • 11 Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.

  • 7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

  • 7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

  • 3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • 15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • 5 It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • 18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • 14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

  • 24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • 19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?

  • 24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.