Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits<n id="1" /> to become unclean by them. I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits<n id="2" /> to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face<n id="3" /> against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented over him and had buried him in Ramah, his hometown.<n id="1" /> In the meantime Saul had removed the mediums<n id="2" /> and magicians<n id="3" /> from the land.

<p class="poetry">The Egyptians will panic,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and I will confuse their strategy.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead,p> <p class="poetry">from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">They will say to you, &#8220;Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations.<n id="2" /> Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Josiah also got rid of<n id="1" /> the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits,<n id="2" /> the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images,<n id="3" /> and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law<n id="4" /> recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.