[HPforGrownups] Re: Anti-Potter groups

[B.C. French]

No: HPFGUIDX 1466

At 5:52 PM -0700 9/14/00, Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
>
>At 07:31 PM 9/14/00 -0500, B.C. French wrote:
>>"Thou shall not suffer a witch to live." I don't remember exactly
>>what chapter and verse of the Bible that comes from, but it's in
>>there. Probably Leviticus.
>
>Exodus 22:18.  And it's an "accidental" mistranslation... The original text
>says "poisoner", not witch.


There are lots of "accidental" mistranslations. Genesis is full of 'em.

...Barb
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