Deuteronomy:13

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* If there shall arise among you a prophet , or a dreamer of dreams , and give thee a sign or a wonder . * And the sign or the wonder shall come to pass , of which he spoke to thee , saying , Let us go after other gods , which thou hast not known , and let us serve them ; * Thou shalt not hearken to the words of that prophet , or that dreamer of dreams : for the LORD your God proveth you , to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul . * Ye shall walk after the LORD your God , and fear him , and keep his commandments , and obey his voice , and ye shall serve him , and cleave to him . * And that prophet , or that dreamer of dreams , shall be put to death ; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt , and redeemed you from the house of bondage , to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in . So shalt thou remove the evil from the midst of thee . * If thy brother , the son of thy mother , or thy son , or thy daughter , or the wife of thy bosom , or thy friend , who is as thy own soul , shall entice thee secretly , saying , Let us go and serve other gods , which thou hast not known , thou , nor thy fathers ; * Namely , of the gods of the people who are around you , nigh to thee , or far off from thee , from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth ; * Thou shalt not consent to him , nor hearken to him ; neither shall thy eye pity him , neither shalt thou spare , neither shalt thou conceal him : * 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 . * And thou shalt stone him with stones that he shall die ; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God , who brought thee 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 thou shalt hear , in one of thy cities , which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there , saying , * Certain men , the children of Belial , have gone out from among you , and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city , saying , Let us go and serve other gods , which ye have not known ; * Then shalt thou inquire , and make search , and ask diligently ; and behold , if it is truth , and the thing certain , that such abomination is wrought among you ; * Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword , destroying it utterly , and all that is in it , and its cattle , with the edge of the sword . * And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of its street , and shalt burn with fire the city , and all the spoil of it every whit , for the LORD thy God : and it shall be a heap forever ; it shalt not be built again . * And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to thy hand : that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger , and show thee mercy , and have compassion upon thee , and multiply thee , as he hath sworn to thy fathers ; * When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God , to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day , to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God .

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