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Lev 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

familiar		Lev 20:27; Lev 19:26,31; Deu 18:10-14; Isa 8:19
go		Exd 34:15,16; Num 15:39; Psa 73:27; Eze 6:9; Hsa 4:12
cut him		1Ch 10:13,14; In the days of Moses, superstition was almost the {sensus communis} of the human race, which then made severe punishment necessary: by means of the Christian dispensation such errors are now exploded, the cultivation of philosophy and natural history having harmonised and contributed their feebler share of light, so that we no longer have to deplore mischiefs occasioned by the silly curiosity attempting to unfold future events.

Correlating Passages

familiar

	Lev 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.
	Lev 19:26	Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
	Lev 19:31	Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.
	Deu 18:10	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,
	Deu 18:11	Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
	Deu 18:12	For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
	Deu 18:13	Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
	Deu 18:14	For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do].
	Isa 8:19	And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

	Exd 34:15	Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
	Exd 34:16	And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
	Num 15:39	And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
	Psa 73:27	For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
	Eze 6:9	And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
	Hsa 4:12	My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

cut him

	1Ch 10:13	So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it];
	1Ch 10:14	And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

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Scott, Thomas. "Leviticus 20:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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