Deuteronomy 13

If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises from among you, and he gives to you a sign or a wonder,

and the sign or the wonder comes about, which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’ (which you have not known) ‘and let us worship them,’

do not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for God your God is testing you to know whether you love God your God with all your heart and with all your soul. \*

You shall walk after God your God and honor him and keep his commandments and listen to his voice, and you shall serve him and cling to him. \*

And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he has spoken rebellion against God your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, and who redeemed you from the house of slaves, to drive you out from the way in which God your God commanded you to walk. And you shall remove the evil from among you.

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} like your life, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (that you have not known, you nor your fathers,

from the gods of the peoples that surround you, near to you or far from you, from {one} end of the earth and to the {other} end of the earth) \*

do not yield to him and do not listen to him, and your eye shall not pity him, and do not spare nor hide him.

Instead, killing, you shall kill him. Your hand shall be the first on him to put him to death, and afterwards, the hand of all the people. \*

And you shall stone him to death with stones because he seeks to drive you away from God your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.

And all Israel will hear and fear and will not continue to do as the things of this wickedness among you. \*

If you hear in one of your cities that God your God gives to you to live there, saying,

‘Men, sons of wickedness, have gone out from among you and have driven out the inhabitants of their city saying, “Let us go and serve other gods that you have not known,”’

and you shall investigate and search out and ask thoroughly, and behold, the matter {is} an established truth, this abomination has been done in your midst, \*

striking, you shall strike the dwellers of that city to the mouth of the sword, devoting it and all who {are} in it and its livestock to the mouth of the sword.

And you shall gather all the spoil to the middle of its street and burn the city in fire, and all its spoil completely, for God your God. And it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. \*

And in your hand you shall not cling to anything from the devoted thing, so that God will turn from the burning of his nose and give to you compassion and have compassion on you and make you increase, as he has sworn to your fathers,

when you listen to the voice of God your God, to keep all his commandments that I am commanding you today, to do right in the eyes of God your God. \*