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Chapter 13 |
| 1 | If there arise
among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a
wonder, |
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And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto
thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us
serve them; |
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| Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or
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. |
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Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,
and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. |
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And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he
hath 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 thee
out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou
put the evil away from the midst of thee. |
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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 thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and
serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; |
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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 shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal
him: |
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But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon
him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. |
| 10 |
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to
thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee 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.
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| 12 | If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath
given thee 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 ye have not
known; |
| 14
| Then shalt thou inquire, 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 shalt surely smite the
inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and
all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
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| 16 | And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street
thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof 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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17 | And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing
to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and
show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers; |
| 18 | When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the
LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do
that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. |
