{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/tsa/tsa23.htm","path":"jud/tsa/tsa23.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/tsa/tsa23.htm","text":"Tractate Sanhedrin, Herbert Danby tr. [1919]\nM.VII. 7b. The Ba\u2018al \u2018Ob, 1 that is, the Python 2 who speaks from his armpits, and the Yidd\u2018oni 3 who speaks from his mouth, are punishable by stoning; and he who has inquired of them (offends) against an explicit warning. 4\n7. HE WHO INQUIRES OF THE DEAD; 6---that is, one who conjures up the dead by witchcraft, or one who inquires of a skull. What is the difference between one who inquires of a skull and one who conjures up the dead by witchcraft? When one conjures up the dead by witchcraft it (the ghost) does not come up in the proper way, 7 nor will it come up on the Sabbath; but when one inquires of a skull it comes up in the ordinary way, and will also come up on the Sabbath.\n101:1 Lev. 19. 31; 20. 27; Deut. 18. 11.\n101:2 Vulgate of Lev. 20. 27. \"Vir sive mulier in quibus pythonicus . . . fuerit spiritus.\" LXX normally renders \u2018Ob by \u1f10\u03b3\u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03af\u03bc\u03c5\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, and Plutarch De defectu oraculorum, states that in his time \u1f10\u03b3\u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03af\u03bc\u03c5\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 were called \u03c0\u03cd\u03b8\u03c9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2. Cf. Acts 16. 16.\n101:3 R. V. Deut. 18. 11: \"familiar spirit.\"\n101:4 Cf. Lev. 19. 31.\n101:5 Sanh. 65b has yaddu\u2018a. This, according to Rashi, was a wild beast, or, according to Maimonides, a bird.\n101:6 Deut. 18. 11.\n101:7 That is, according to Rashi, feet uppermost.","title":"Tractate Sanhedrin: IV. Offenders Liable to Capital Punishment: 10-11. The Ba\u2018al \u2018Ob and the Yidd\u2018oni","type":"page"}