¶ If there arise among you a prophet¹, or a dreamer² of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

³And 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;

Thou shalt not hearken⁴ unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth⁵ you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God⁶ with all your heart and with all your soul.

Ye shall walk⁷ after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey⁸ his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave⁹ unto him.

And that prophet¹⁰, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken¹¹ 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 midst¹² of thee.

¶ If thy brother¹³, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is¹⁴ as thine own soul, entice¹⁵ thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou¹⁶ hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

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;

Thou shalt not consent¹⁷ unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine¹⁸ eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

But¹⁹ thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand²⁰ shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

¶ And thou shalt stone him²¹ with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought²² thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage²³.

²⁴And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

¶²⁵If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

Certain men, the children²⁶ of Belial²⁷, are gone²⁸ out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us²⁹ go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

³⁰Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly³¹, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with³² fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap³³ for ever; it shall not be built again.

And there shall cleave³⁴ nought of the cursed³⁵ thing to thine hand: that the LORD³⁶ may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew³⁷ thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply³⁸ thee, as he hath³⁹ sworn unto thy fathers;

When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep⁴⁰ all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.