“1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and
giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to
pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods,
which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not
hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for
the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God
with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the
LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his
voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet,
or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken
to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the
land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust
thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So
shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.”
“6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter,
or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own soul,
entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou
hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 [Namely], of the gods of the
people which [are] round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from
thee, from the [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the
earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou
conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first
upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall
hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is
among you.”
“12 If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy
God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 [Certain] men, the
children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the
inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which
ye have not known; 14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask
diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain,
[that] such abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt surely smite
the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it
utterly, and all that [is] therein, and the cattle thereof, with the
edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the
midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all
the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an
heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 17 And there shall cleave
nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from
the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion
upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 18 When
thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his
commandments which I command thee this day, to do [that which is] right
in the eyes of the LORD thy God.” (Deuteronomy 13:1-18 AV)
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