Leviticus 20:27 (WEB)

Passage

“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or 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 “‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

Leviticus 20:26 You shall be holy to me; for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Leviticus 20:27 “‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or 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 "woman", "medium", "wizard", "shall", "surely", "death", and "stone". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "woman" and "medium", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The prior verse says "You shall be holy to me for...", giving immediate footing for "woman" and "medium". In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

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