 1 If a prophet rises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder that he foretold to you occurs saying, Let us go after other gods that you have not known, and let us serve them, 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. 5 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, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, to thrust you out of the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put the evil away from the midst of you. 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is like your own soul, lures you secretly saying, Let us go and serve other gods that you have not known, you nor your fathers, 7 that is, of the gods of the people who are around you, near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth, 8 you shall not consent to him nor listen to him. Nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare, nor shall you hide him. 9 But you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 You shall stone him with stones so that he dies, because he has sought to drive you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. 11 All Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more such wickedness as this among you. 12 If, in one of your cities that the Lord your God has given you to live in, you shall hear one saying, 13 Men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you and have drawn away those who live in their city saying, Let us go and serve other gods that you have not known, 14 then you shall inquire and make search, and ask carefully. And behold, if it is true, and the thing is certain, that such an abomination is done among you, 15 You shall strike those who live in that city with the edge of the sword, to destroy it and all that is in it and all of its cattle completely. 16 You shall gather all its spoil into the middle of its street, and shall burn the city with fire, and all its spoil, every bit of it, for the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. 17 Do not let any of the cursed thing cling to your hand so that the Lord might turn from the heat of His anger and show you mercy and give mercies to you and multiply you as He has sworn to your fathers. 18 When you listen to the voice of the Lord your God, keep all His commandments that I command you today. Do right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
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