Leviticus 20:6

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums ¹ 

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.

Leviticus 25:47

25:47 “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers ⁴  and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that ⁵  he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member ⁶  of a foreigner’s family,

Leviticus 25:50

25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years ⁷  from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him. ⁸ 

[20:6]  ¹ sn For structure and coherence in Lev 20:6-27 see the note on v. 27 below.

[20:6]  ² tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirits” in Lev 19:31 above.

[20:6]  ³ tn Heb “I will give my faces.”

[25:47]  ⁴ tn Heb “And if the hand of a foreigner and resident with you reaches” (cf. v. 26 for this idiom).

[25:47]  ⁵ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[25:47]  ⁶ tn Heb “offshoot, descendant.”

[25:50]  ⁷ tn Heb “the years.”

[25:50]  ⁸ tn Heb “as days of a hired worker he shall be with him.” For this and the following verses see the explanation in P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 358-59.