1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder
come to pass, whereof he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods,
which you have not known, and let us serve them; 3 you shall not listen to
the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God
proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart
and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and
fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall
serve him, and cleave to him. 5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams,
shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God
commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of
you.
6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter,
or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice
you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not
known, you, nor your fathers; 7 of the gods of the peoples who are round
about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth
even to the other end of the earth; 8 you shall not consent to him, nor
listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare,
neither shall you conceal him: 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand
shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the
people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought
to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 11 All Israel shall hear, and fear,
and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your
God gives you to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain base fellows are gone out
from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city,
saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;
14 then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,
behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done
in the midst of you, 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that
city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is
therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword. 16 You shall
gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn
with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God:
and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. 17 There
shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that Yahweh may turn
from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on
you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 18 when you shall
listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I
command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your
God.
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