Deuteronomy:13:1-18

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* If there arise among you a prophet , or a dreamer of dreams , and gives you a sign or a wonder , * And the sign or the wonder come to pass , whereof he spoke unto you , saying , Let us go after other gods , which you have not known , and let us serve them ; * You shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet , or that dreamer of dreams : for the LORD your God proves you , to know whether all of you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul . * All of you shall walk after the LORD your God , and fear him , and keep his commandments , and obey his voice , and all of you shall serve him , and cleave unto him . * And that prophet , or that dreamer of dreams , shall be put to death ; because he has 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 you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in . So shall you put the evil away from the midst of you . * If your brother , the son of your mother , or your son , or your daughter , or the wife of your bosom , or your friend , which is as yours own soul , entice you secretly , saying , Let us go and serve other gods , which you have not known , you , nor your fathers ; * Namely , of the gods of the people which are round about you , nigh unto you , or far off from you , from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth ; * You shall not consent unto him , nor hearken unto him ; neither shall yours eye pity him , neither shall you spare , neither shall you conceal him : * But you shall surely kill him ; yours hand shall be first upon him to put him to death , and afterwards the hand of all the people . * And you shall stone him with stones , that he die ; because he has sought to thrust you away from the LORD your God , which brought you out of the land of Egypt , from the house of bondage . * And all Israel shall hear , and fear , and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you . * If you shall hear say in one of your cities , which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there , saying , * Certain men , the children of Belial , are gone out from among you , and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city , saying , Let us go and serve other gods , which all of you have not known ; * Then shall you enquire , and make search , and ask diligently ; and , behold , if it be truth , and the thing certain , that such abomination is wrought among you ; * 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 thereof , with the edge of the sword . * And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof , and shall burn with fire the city , and all the spoil thereof everything , for the LORD your God : and it shall be an heap for ever ; it shall not be built again . * And there shall cleave nothing of the cursed thing to yours hand : that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger , and show you mercy , and have compassion upon you , and multiply you , as he has sworn unto your fathers ; * When you shall hearken to the voice of the LORD your God , to keep all his commandments which I command you this day , to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God .

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