Deuteronomy Chapter 13

Deuteronomy Chapter 13
1 If there arise among you a prophet or a
dreamer of dreams, (and give thee a sign
or wonder,
2 And the sign and the wonder, which he
hath told thee, come to pass) saying, Let
us go after other gods, which thou hast
not known, and let us serve them,
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words
of the prophet, or unto 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.
4 Ye shall walk after the Lord your God
and fear him, and shall keep his
commandments, and hearken unto his
voice, and ye shall serve him, and
cleave unto him.
5 But that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams, he shall be slain, because he
hath spoken to turn you away from the
Lord your God (which brought you out
of the land of Egypt, and delivered you
out of the house of bondage) to thrust
thee out of the way, wherein the Lord thy
God commanded thee to walk: so shalt
thou take the evil away forth of the midst
of thee.
6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or
thine own son, or thy daughter, or the
wife, that lieth in thy bosom, or thy
friend, which is as thine own soul, entice
thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, (which thou hast not known,
thou, I say, nor thy fathers)
7 Any of the gods of the people which
are round about you, near unto thee or
far off from thee, from the one end of the
earth unto the other: 8 Thou shalt not
consent unto him, nor hear him, neither
shall thine eye pity him, nor show mercy,
nor keep him secret:
9 But thou shalt even kill him: thine hand
shall be first upon him to put him to
death, and then the hands of all the
people.
10 And thou shalt stone him with stones,
that he die (because he hath gone about
to thrust thee away from the Lord thy
God, which brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, from the house of bondage)
11 That all Israel may hear and fear, and
do no more any such wickedness as this
among you.
12 If thou shalt hear say (concerning any
of thy cities which the Lord thy God hath
given thee to dwell in)
13 Wicked men are gone out from among
you, and have drawn away the
inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go
and serve other gods, which ye have not
known,
14 Then thou shalt seek, and make
search and enquire diligently: and if it
be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought among you, 15
Thou shalt even slay the inhabitants of
that city with the edge of the sword:
destroy it utterly, and all that is therein,
and the cattle thereof with the edge of the
sword.
16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of
it into the midst of the street thereof, and
burn with fire the city and all the spoil
thereof every whit, unto the Lord thy
God: and it shall be an heap forever: it
shall not be built again. 17 And there
shall cleave nothing of the damned thing
to thine hand, that the Lord may turn from
the fierceness of his wrath, and show
thee mercy, and have compassion on
thee and multiply thee, as he hath sworn
unto thy fathers:
18 When thou shalt obey the voice of the
Lord thy God, and keep all his
commandments which I command thee
this day, that thou do that which is right
in the eyes of the Lord thy God.