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["Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwoodcreative.com>]

Looks to me like he's conflating it with the following verse. 

Stoney Breyer
Writer/TouchwoodCreative

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Subject: [b-hebrew] Exodus 22:17

I recently read a reference to Donald Bretherton's suggestion that Exodus 
22:17 
 מְכַשֵּׁפָה לֹא תְחַיֶּה 
MK$PH L) TXYH


be translated  
"A woman practicing magic must not restore to life any dead person or beast: 
she will surely be put to death."

While I can see a few variations on "Do not allow a sorceress (or 
necromancer) to live, I can't see how this translation makes sense.

Am I missing something? 

Sincerly,

Michael Abernathy
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