Deuteronomy:13

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* If there arise among you a prophet , or a dreamer of (note :)Who says that he has things revealed to him in dreams .(:note ) dreams , and giveth thee a sign or a wonder , * And the sign or the wonder come to pass , whereof he spake unto thee , saying , (note :)He shows that to which the false prophets tend .(:note ) Let us go after other gods , which thou hast not known , and let us serve them ; * Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet , or that dreamer of dreams : for the LORD your God (note :)God ordains all these things that his may be known .(:note ) proveth you , to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul . * Yee shall walke after the Lorde your God and feare him , and shall keepe his commaundements , and hearken vnto his voyce , and yee shall serue him , and cleaue vnto him . * And that prophet , or that dreamer of dreams , shall be (note :)Being convicted by testimonies , and condemned by the judge .(:note ) 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 . * If (note :)All natural affection must give place to God 's honour .(:note ) 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 Whom you love as your life . soul , entice thee secretly , saying , Let us go and serve other gods , which thou hast not known , thou , nor thy fathers ; * Any of the gods of the people which are round about you , neere vnto thee or farre off from thee , from the one ende of the earth vnto ye other : * Thou shalt not cosent vnto him , nor heare him , neither shall thine eye pitie him , nor shewe mercie , nor keepe him secret : * But thou shalt surely kill him ; (note :)As the witness is charged .(:note ) thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death , and afterwards the hand of all the people . * And thou shalt stone him with stones , that he dye (because he hath gone about to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God , which brought thee out of ye land of Egypt , from ye house of bondage ) * That all Israel may heare and feare , and doe no more any such wickednesse as this among you . * If thou shalt heare say (concerning any of thy cities which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee to dwell in ) * Wicked men are gone out from among you , &amp ; haue drawen away the inhabitants of their citie , saying , Let vs go and serue other gods , which ye haue not knowen , * Then shalt (note :)Which are appointed to see faults punished .(:note ) 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 ; * Thou shalt euen slay the inhabitants of that citie with the edge of the sworde : destroy it vtterly , and all that is therein , and the cattel thereof with the edge of the sworde . * And (note :)Signifying that no idolatry is so detestable , nor more grievously to be punished , than of those who once professed God .(:note ) 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 . * And there shall cleave nought of the (note :)Of the spoil of that idolatrous and cursed city , read ( Deu_7:26 ; Jos_7:11 ).(:note ) 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 ; * When thou shalt obey the voyce of the Lord thy God , and keepe all his commandements which I command thee this day , that thou do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God .

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