Deut 13
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If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give
you a sign or a wonder,
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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;
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you shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams:
for YHWH your God proves you, to know whether you love YHWH your God with all your
heart and with all your soul.
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You shall walk after YHWH your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey
his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him.
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And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has
spoken rebellion against YHWH 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
YHWH your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst
of you.
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If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife
of your bosom, or your friend, that 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;
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of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh to you, or far off from
you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
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you shall not consent to him, nor hearken to him; neither shall your eye pity him,
neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
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but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death,
and afterwards the hand of all the people.
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And you shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away
from YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.
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And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do not more any such wickedness as
this is in the midst of you.
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If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which YHWH your God gives you
to dwell there, saying,
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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;
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then shall you 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 you,
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you shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying
it utterly, and all that is therein and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.
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And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of its street, and
shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to YHWH your
God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
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And there shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that YHWH may turn
from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you,
and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
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when you shall hearken to the voice of YHWH your God, to keep all his commandments
which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of YHWH your God.