Leviticus 20:27 (DBY)

Passage

And if there be a man or a woman in whom is a spirit of Python or of divination, they shall certainly be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood is upon them.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 20:25 And ye shall make a separation between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean, and ye shall not make yourselves an abomination by beast, or by fowl, or by anything that creepeth on the ground which I have separated for you, declaring [it] as unclean.

Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me; for I Jehovah am holy, and have separated you from the peoples to be mine.

Leviticus 20:27 And if there be a man or a woman in whom is a spirit of Python or of divination, they shall certainly be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood is upon them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "Spirit", "woman", "python", "divination", "shall", "certainly", 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.