| 1 If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give 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 unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah
your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your
heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after Jehovah 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 rebellion against Jehovah your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the
house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which Jehovah thy God
commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil 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, that 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 of the gods of the peoples that 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; thy 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 to death with stones, because he
hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall
hear, and fear, and shall do not more any such wickedness as this is in the
midst of thee.
12 If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy
God giveth thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain base fellows are gone
out from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their
city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
14 then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,
behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is
wrought in the midst of thee, 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, unto
Jehovah thy God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built
again. 17 And there shall cleave nought of the devoted thing to thy hand;
that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show 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 Jehovah thy God, to
keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is
right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.
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