Micah 5:12

witchcrafts. sorceries. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 18:10). App-92.

hand. Some codices, with Septuagint, and Syriac, read "hands".

soothsayers: i.e. users of secret or occult arts.

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I will cut off — God will in mercy to his people take away these occasions of sin.

¹² And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

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Micah 5:12