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one type of death penalty, namely, decapitation. Since that is the only type of capital punishment that applies to non-Jews, it cannot be derived through a verbal analogy that the same type applies to a Jewish sorceror.
The baraita continues: Ben Azzai says that it is stated: “You shall not allow a witch to live” (Exodus 22:17), and it is stated in the following verse: “Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death” (Exodus 22:18). The fact that the Torah juxtaposes this matter to that matter is to teach that j
With regard to this derivation, R' Yehuda said to him: And because the Torah juxtaposes this matter with that matter, shall we take this person out to be stoned? Should he be sentenced to the most severe type of capital punishment on that basis? Rather, the source is as follows: A necromancer and
The Talmud asks: According to the opinion of R' Yehuda as well, let the punishment with regard to a necromancer and a sorcerer be considered two verses that come as one, i.e., that teach the same matter, and therefore the halakha of other cases cannot be derived from it, according to the principle
R' Zekharya says: This means that R' Yehuda holds that two verses that come as one do teach about other cases.