31 “‘Do not turn yourselves to the spirit mediums,*+ and do not consult professional foretellers of events,+ so as to become unclean by them. I am Jehovah YOUR God.

27 “‘And as for a man or woman in whom there proves to be a mediumistic spirit or spirit of prediction,+ they should be put to death without fail.+ They should pelt them to death with stones. Their own blood is upon them.’”+

3 Now Samuel himself had died, and all Israel had proceeded to bewail him and bury him in Raʹmah his own city.+ As for Saul, he had removed the spirit mediums* and the professional foretellers of events from the land.+