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So Saul said to his servants, “Search for me a woman who is a medium[a] so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants said to him, “Look there is a woman who is a medium in Endor.” So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went with two of his men.[b] And they came to the woman by night and he said, “Please consult a spirit for me through the ritual pit,[c] and bring up for me the one whom I tell you.” But the woman said to him, “Look, you know what Saul did, how he exterminated the mediums[d] and the soothsayers from the land! Why are you setting a trap for my life to kill me?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 28:7 Literally “a woman of an owner of a spirit of the dead” (= “a woman who owns a ritual pit for summoning spirits of the dead”)
  2. 1 Samuel 28:8 Literally “and two of his men with him”
  3. 1 Samuel 28:8 Literally “the spirit of the dead”
  4. 1 Samuel 28:9 Or “necromancers”