Deuteronomy 13

¹If a prophet arises in your midst, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder --

²And the sign or the wonder comes to pass that he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them.'

³You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD the God of you all is testing you to know whether you love the LORD the God of you all with all the heart of you all and with all the soul of you all.

⁴After the Lord, the God of you all, you shall walk, and him you shall fear, and his commandments you shall keep, and his voice you shall obey, and him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.

⁵That prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against the Lord, God of you all, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slaves, to lead you astray from the way that the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

⁶If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your bosom or your neighbor who is as your own soul secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' -- which you have not known, you or your fathers --

⁷from the gods of the peoples that are around you, those near to you or those far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth.

⁸you shall not yield to him, nor listen to him; your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.

⁹For you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be against him first to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward.

¹⁰And you shall stone him to death with stones, for he sought to drive you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

¹¹And all Israel will hear and fear, and will not do again any evil thing such as this in your midst.

¹²If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell in, saying,

¹³Men, sons of Belial, have gone out from your midst and have led astray the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known.

¹⁴then you shall investigate, and search out, and ask diligently, and behold, if it is true -- the thing is established -- this abomination has been done in your midst,

¹⁵You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, devoting it and everything in it and its livestock to destruction, with the edge of the sword.

¹⁶You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its town square, and burn the city with fire, along with all its spoil, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; it shall be a permanent ruin, never to be rebuilt.

¹⁷And nothing from the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from his burning anger and show you compassion and have mercy on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers.

¹⁸for you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments that I am commanding you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.