Deuteronomy 13

¹If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder ,

²and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass , and if he says , 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 that dreamer of dreams . For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul .

⁴You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice , and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

⁵But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death , because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery , to make you leave the way in which 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 you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly , saying , Let us go and serve other gods , which neither you nor your fathers have known ,

⁷some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you , from the one end of the earth to the other ,

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

⁹But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death , and afterward the hand of all the people .

¹⁰You shall stone him to death with stones , because he sought to draw 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 shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

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

¹³that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city , saying , Let us go and serve other gods , which you have not known ,

¹⁴then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently . And behold , if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,

¹⁵you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword , devoting it to destruction , all who are in it and its cattle , with the edge of the sword .

¹⁶You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire , as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God . It shall be a heap forever . It shall not be built again .

¹⁷None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand , that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers ,

¹⁸if you obey the voice of the Lord your God , keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today , and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God .