[HPforGrownups] Re: Anti-Potter groups

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 1468



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.
>

Fascinating--this was actually a huge plot point in my last book.
Mistranslation from what--the Greek?

Peg