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Exodus 22:18

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live; every one, man or woman, actually guilty of witchcraft, was to be put to death. The sorceress is merely named because women were more addicted to this practice than men.

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See also Exodus 22:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 22:18. _THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE._] If there had been no _witches_, such a law as this had never been made. The existence of the _law_, given under the direction of the Spir...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE - See the marginal references. and Leviticus 20:27. The witch is here named to represent the class. This is the earliest denunciation of witchcraft in the law. In...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 22 FURTHER JUDGMENTS _ 1. Concerning theft (Exodus 22:1)_ 2. Concerning neglect in case of fire (Exodus 22:6) 3. Concerning dishonesty (Exodus 22:7) 4. Concerning immoralities and forbidde...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 22:18 E. VARIOUS ORDINANCES. From this point up to Exodus 23:9 we have to do with miscellaneous laws, differing in the main both in form and substance from the Judgments, and therefore here reg...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WITCH OR SPIRITIST. Medium to or from, from root to _mutter,_ as to some demon. Compare Leviticus 19:26; Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:27;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Magic and divination were practised extensively in the ancient world, as indeed they are still among uncivilised peoples and among the uneducated even in civilised countries: we have particularly abun...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE— What is here translated _witch,_ is rendered _sorcerer,_ ch. Exodus 7:11 where see an account of the word. In various passages of the law, some of which are poin...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 22 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. (2) If the thief be found breaking in,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE._ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, х_ MªKASHEEPAAH_ (H3784)] - a practitioner in magic and incantations; a juggler, who pretended by skill in occult scien...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONTINUED) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately hig...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A WITCH] RV 'sorceress.' The word is the same as that in Exodus 7:11. Sorcery, or the pretended holding communication with evil spirits, is a form of idolatry or rebellion against Jehovah, and punishe...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 22 LAWS ABOUT PROPERTY – VERSES 1-15 V1 The *LORD continued to spe...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. (16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous. Mo...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE. — The word translated “witch” in this passage is the feminine singular of that rendered by “sorcerers” in Exodus 7:11, and means “a mutterer of charms.” The use...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Exodus 22:17]_ מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה לֹ֥א תְחַיֶּֽה׃ ס...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXII. _ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._ PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19. The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of them without...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is that...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wizards. Hebrew, "a witch." Women are more given to such delusions, which imply an apostacy from God to serve the devil, and disturb the republic._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Lev_19:31; Lev_20:6; Lev_20:27....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    18._Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. _In these passages the punishment of those is appointed who should in any respect violate the worship of God. We have lately seen how severely God avenged ap...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU SHALL NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE. Such that had familiar spirits, and conversed with them, and by means thereof got knowledge of many things relating to persons, at least pretending they did; and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Ver. 18. _A witch._] An enchantress, sorceress, whose help was sometimes sought in enticing young maids to folly. _a_ The wizzard also is here meant, but the wo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Witchcraft not only gives that honour to the devil which is due to God alone, but bids defiance to the divine providence, wages war with God's government, puts his work into the devil's hand, expectin...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Of theft. 5 Of dammage. 7 Of trespasses. 14.Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of bestialitie. 20 Of idolatrie. 21 Of strangers, widowes, and fatherlesse. 25 Of vsurie. 2...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and leave...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. Any person that is in league with the devil, and by his help either doth any mischief, or discovers and practices things above the reach of other men or women. Of which see Exodus 7:11 Leviticus...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 22:18 sorceress H3784 (H8764) live H2421 (H8762) Leviticus 19:26,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SUNDRY REGULATIONS (EXODUS 22:18 TO EXODUS 23:9). The regulations that follow are mainly apodictic, direct commands made specifically by God requiring total obedience. As such they are not paralleled...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Judgments on rights of property; crimes against humanity. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Man's attitude to his fellow man will be based on his attitude to God and His law. KEY WORD:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 22:2. _Breaking up,_ by forcible entrance into a house, _there shall no blood be shed for him,_ though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to ha...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live._ SPIRITUALISM-MODERN WITCHCRAFT The Bible regards witchcraft-- 1. As a stern and diabolical reality (Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:9). 2. As unlawful traff...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS ON THE VERSES_ WITCHCRAFT.—_Exodus 22:18_ The term is here used to represent the whole class of wizards, necromancers, and diviners with which the world has been infested from a...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CONCERNING BORROWING.—_Exodus 22:14_ This is an extension of the preceding principles. Borrowing might be for the purpose of—1, obligation; or 2, trade. I. If that which was borrowed received hurt i...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MISCELLANEOUS LAWS (Exodus 22:16-2) EXODUS 22:16, EXODUS 22:17 _Laws against seduction_. It has been

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legislator proceeds to treat of injuries to property, and, as he has been sp...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    If a man shall steal an ox, and kill it, [The rustlers] and sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, four sheep for a sheep (Exodus 22:1). You see in those days they were interested in taking ca...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Leviticus 19:26 Leviticus 19:31 Leviticus 20:6 Leviticus 20:27...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Witchcraft not only gives that honour to the devil which is due to God alone, but bids defiance to the divine providence, wages war with God's government, puts his work into the devil's hand expecting...

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