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familiar spirits. These are evil spirits personating dead human beings, and attaching themselves only to "mediums" and those who give up their will to them. A dread reality is provided against by these enactments. Compare Lev_20:27. Deu_18:10-12. 1Ch_10:13-14. Isa_8:19. The Hebrew 'ob, borrowed from an Akkadian word, ubi = a charm, used of one who was mistress of the spell, or spirit. Isa_29:4. See Act_16:16, where it is defined as "a spirit of Python" (= Pythius Apollo), i.e. the devil.
Wizards = knowing ones: those having occult knowledge,