Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
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Gill's Exposition
Regard not them that have familiar spirits,.... The word used signifies "bottles", and that sort of diviners here intended go by this name, either because what they sat on when they divined was in the…
Barnes' Notes
The devotion of faith, which would manifest itself in obedience to the commandment to keep God’s Sabbaths and to reverence His sanctuary Lev 19:30, is the true preservative against the superstition…
Adam Clarke
Regard not them that have familiar spirits - The Hebrew word אבות oboth probably signifies a kind of engastromuthoi or ventriloquists, or such as the Pythoness mentioned Act 16:16, Act 16:18; persons…
Here is, I. A law for the preserving of the honour of the time and place appropriated to the service of God, Lev 19:30. This would be a means to secure them both from the idolatries and superstitions…
Cambridge Bible
familiar spirits … wizards Cp. ch. Lev 20:6; Lev 20:27. For the difference between the two see Driver on Deu 18:11. The former expression ("ôb) may be rendered ghost. Its oracles were uttered in a…
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