Deuteronomy 13

¹“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

²and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’

³you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord

⁴You shall walk after the Lord

⁵But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord

⁶“If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,

⁷of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth,

⁸you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him;

⁹but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

¹⁰And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the Lord

¹¹So all Israel shall hear and fear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you.

¹²“If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the Lord

¹³‘Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” ’—which you have not known—

¹⁴then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination was committed among you,

¹⁵you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock—with the edge of the sword.

¹⁶And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the Lord

¹⁷So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the Lord

¹⁸because you have listened to the voice of the Lord