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Chapter 13  
     
1.
 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,
  
2.
 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
  
3.
 Thou shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth 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 cleave unto him.
  
5.
 And 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, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put the evil away from the midst of thee.
  
6.
 If 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 your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
  
7.
 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
  
8.
 Thou shall not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:  
9.
 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
  
10.
 And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to thrust you away from the Lord thy God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
  
11.
 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
  
12.
 If you shall hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God has given you to dwell there, saying,
  
13.
 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;
  
14.
 Then shall you enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
  
15.
 Thou shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.
  
16.
 And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
  
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 And there shall cleave nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew you mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he has sworn unto thy fathers;
  
18.
 When you shall hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I Moses command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.
  

 
 
 

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