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And Saul inquired of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, not by dreams or by the Urim[a] or by the prophets. So Saul said to his servants, “Search for me a woman who is a medium[b] so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants said to him, “Look there is a woman who is a medium in Endor.” So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went with two of his men.[c] And they came to the woman by night and he said, “Please consult a spirit for me through the ritual pit,[d] and bring up for me the one whom I tell you.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 28:6 A device for revealing God’s decisions; see Exod 28:30; Num 27:21; Neh 7:65; Prov 16:33
  2. 1 Samuel 28:7 Literally “a woman of an owner of a spirit of the dead” (= “a woman who owns a ritual pit for summoning spirits of the dead”)
  3. 1 Samuel 28:8 Literally “and two of his men with him”
  4. 1 Samuel 28:8 Literally “the spirit of the dead”