< Deuteronomy 13 >
1 If he will arise in midst your a prophet or a dreamer of a dream and he will give to you a sign or a wonder.
If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
2 And it will come the sign and the wonder which he spoke to you saying let us walk after gods other which not you have known them and let us be enticed to serve them.
And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship;
3 Not you will listen to [the] words of the prophet that or to [the] dreamer of the dream that for [is] putting to [the] test Yahweh God your you to know ¿ [are] there you loving Yahweh God your with all heart your and with all being your.
Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.
4 After Yahweh God your you will walk and him you will fear and commandments his you will keep and to voice his you will listen and him you will serve and to him you will cleave!
But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him.
5 And the prophet that or [the] dreamer of the dream that he will be put to death for he has spoken rebellion on Yahweh God your who brought out you - from [the] land of Egypt and who redeemed you from a house of slaves to thrust aside you from the way which he has commanded you Yahweh God your to walk in it and you will remove the evil from midst your.
And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.
6 If he will entice you brother your [the] son of mother your or son your or daughter your or - [the] wife of bosom your or friend your who [is] like self your in secrecy saying let us go and let us serve gods other which not you have known you and ancestors your.
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;
7 Any of [the] gods of the peoples which [are] around you near to you or distant from you from [the] end of the earth and to [the] end of the earth.
Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;
8 Not you will yield to him and not you will listen to him and not it will look with pity eye your on him and not you will spare [him] and not you will cover over him.
Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;
9 For certainly you will kill him hand your it will be on him at the first to put to death him and [the] hand of all the people at the last.
But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
10 And you will stone him with stones and he will die for he sought to thrust aside you from with Yahweh God your who brought out you from [the] land of Egypt from a house of slaves.
Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
11 And all Israel they will hear and they will fear! and not they will repeat to do like the thing evil this in midst your.
And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.
12 If you will hear in one of cities your which Yahweh God your [is] about to give to you to dwell there saying.
And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,
13 They have gone out men sons of worthlessness from midst your and they have thrust aside [the] inhabitants of city their saying let us go and let us serve gods other which not you have known.
That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;
14 And you will investigate and you will search and you will enquire thoroughly and there! truth [is] certain the matter it has been done the abomination this in midst your.
Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;
15 Certainly you will strike [the] inhabitants of the city (that *Q(K)*) to [the] mouth of [the] sword totally destroy it and all who [are] in it and livestock its to [the] mouth of [the] sword.
Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.
16 And all plunder its you will gather into [the] middle of open place its and you will burn with fire the city and all plunder its a whole offering to Yahweh God your and it will be a mound of perpetuity not it will be built again.
And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.
17 And not it will cling to hand your anything of the object[s] for destruction so that he may turn Yahweh from [the] burning of anger his and he will give to you compassion and he will have compassion on you and he will increase you just as he swore to ancestors your.
Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:
18 For you will listen to [the] voice of Yahweh God your to keep all commandments his which I [am] commanding you this day to do the right in [the] eyes of Yahweh God your.
So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.