Witchcraft and Wizardry

(17) Thou shalt not allow a sorceress (witch) to live.

(9) When you have come to the land God, your Lord, is giving you, you shall not learn to do like the abominations of those nations.

(10) There shall not be found among you anyone who passes his son or daughter through fire, a soothsayer, a diviner of [auspicious] times, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

(11) or a charmer, a pithom sorcerer, a yido'a sorcerer, or a necromancer.

(12) For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations, God, your Lord is driving them out from before you.

(13) Thou shall be Tamim (wholehearted) with the God, your Lord.

(14) For these nations, which you are to possess, hearken to diviners of [auspicious] times and soothsayers, but as for you, God, your Lord, has not given you [things] like these.

(15) A prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me, God, your Lord will set up for you you shall hearken to him.

(1) Four [forms] of capital punishment were given over to the courts: stoning, burning, decapitation, and strangulation. Rabbi Shimon says, burning, stoning, strangulation, and decapitation. This is the law [i.e. procedure] concerning those to be stoned.

(4) These are [executed by] stoning: ...the idolater; one who gives of his children to Molekh [a particular form of idolatry], the ba'al 'ov [necromancer] and yid'oni [soothsayer]...the sorcerer...

(7) One who gives of his children to Molekh - he is not liable until he gives over [the child] to Molekh and passes [the child] through the fire. [If he] gave over [the child] to Molekh, but did not pass [the child] through the fire; [or he] passed [the child] through the fire, but did not give [the child] over to Molekh, the man is not liable; [for he is not liable] until he gives over [the child] and passes [the child] through the fire. A ba'al 'ov- this is the magician who [causes the dead] to speak from his armpit; a yid'oni- this is the one who [causes the dead] to speak through his own mouth. These are executed by stoning, and one who consults them is [merely liable for] a negative commandment [that does not warrant capital punishment].

(11) The sorcerer - if he does an act of sorcery, he is liable, but not one who [merely] tricks the eyes. Rabbi Akiva says in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua, two people harvesting cucumbers, one harvests and is liable, while the other harvests and is exempt. The one who [gathers the cucumbers through] an act of sorcery is liable, [while] the one who [gathers cucumbers in the natural manner and merely] tricks the eyes is exempt.