Halakhah for Sanhedrin 131:18
מה לחרש שכן חרישתו גרמה לו
<i>He shall surely be put to death</i> — by stoning. You say: By stoning. But perhaps it means by one of the other deaths decreed in the Torah? — Here it is written, <i>his blood shall be upon him;</i> and elsewhere it is written, [<i>A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones:</i>] <i>their blood shall be upon them:</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XX, 27. ');"><sup>17</sup></span>
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