20:6 “‘The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits 2 to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face 3 against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.
20:27 “‘A man or woman who 4 has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit 5 must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; 6 their blood guilt is on themselves.’”
1 sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.
2 tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.
3 tn Heb “I will give my faces.”
4 tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, and some Targum
5 tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirit” in Lev 19:31 above.
6 tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning, but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (see the note on v. 2 above). Smr and LXX have “you [plural] shall pelt them with stones.”