Leviticus 20:27 (ASV)

Passage

A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 20:25 Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

Leviticus 20:27 A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "Spirit", "woman", "hath", "familiar", "wizard", "shall", "surely", and "death". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "Spirit" and "woman", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The prior verse says "And ye shall be holy unto me...", giving immediate footing for "Spirit" and "woman". In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "Spirit" and "woman" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.