[1] If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
and he give you a sign or a wonder, [2] and the sign or the wonder come to
pass, whereof he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which
you have not known, and let us serve them; [3] you shall not listen to the
words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God
proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart
and with all your soul. [4] You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear
him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve
him, and cleave to him. [5] That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall
be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house
of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God
commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil 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 as your own
soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which
you have not known, you, nor your fathers; [7] of the gods of the peoples
who are round about you, near to 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; 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 on him to put him to death, and afterwards
the hand of all the people. [10] You shall stone him to death with stones,
because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. [11] All Israel
shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is
in the midst of you. [12] If you shall hear tell concerning one of your
cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying, [13]
Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn
away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which you have not known; [14] then shall you inquire, and make search, and
ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that
such abomination is done in the midst of you, [15] you 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] 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, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall
not be built again. [17] There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to
your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show
you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to
your fathers; [18] when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,
to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which
is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
