Imamat 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.

Imamat 20:2

20:2 “You are to say to the Israelites, ‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel ⁴  who gives any of his children ⁵  to Molech ⁶  must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 21:6

21:6 He answered her, “While I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, I said to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not sell you my vineyard.’” 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.”

[20:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “or from the sojourner who sojourns”; NAB “an alien residing in Israel.”

[20:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “his seed” (so KJV, ASV); likewise in vv. 3-4.

[20:2]  ⁶ tn Regarding Molech and Molech worship see the note on Lev 18:21.

[20:2]  ⁷ tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning (see instead סָקַל, saqal), but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (רָגָם, ragam; see HALOT 1187 s.v. רגם qal.a, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 136).

[21:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “While I was talking…, I said…, he said….” Ahab’s explanation is one lengthy sentence in the Hebrew text, which is divided in the English translation for stylistic reasons.