1If
a prophet arises in your midst, or one who has a dream,
and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
2and the sign or the wonder takes place, which he told you, when he said, ‘Let us follow other gods which you have not known, and serve them’,
3then you will not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of the dream, for the
Lord your God is testing you, so as to know whether you love the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4You will follow the
Lord your God, and you will fear him, and you will keep his commandments, and you will obey him and serve him and cleave to him.
5And that prophet or that dreamer of the dream will be put to death, for he has propounded apostasy against the
Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from a house of slavery, by driving you from the way which the
Lord your God commanded you to go on. So you will eradicate the evil out of your midst.
6If your brother – your mother's son – or your son or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or a neighbour who
is like yourself, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’, which you have not known,
neither you nor your fathers,
7–
any of the gods of the nations which
are around you, near to you or far from you, from
one end of the earth to the
other end of the earth –
8you shall not hold him dear, and you shall not hearken to him, and your eye will not pity him, and you shall not have compassion
on him, and you shall not cover him,
9but you will without fail kill him; your hand will be the first
to be on him, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people
will follow afterwards.
10And you will stone him so that he dies, for he tried to drive you from
being with the
Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt – out of a house of slaves.
11And all Israel will hear and fear, and they will not do such a wicked thing as this again in its midst.
12If you hear it said in one of your cities which the
Lord your God is giving you, to dwell there,
13‘
Some worthless men have come out from your midst and have subverted the inhabitants of their city, saying, «Let us go and serve other gods which you have not known» ’,
14then you will seek and search and inquire diligently, and if
it is true –
if the matter
is established –
that this abomination has been committed in your midst,
15you will without fail strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword. Obliterate it and everyone in it, and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.
16And you will gather all its spoil onto the middle of its street and burn the city and all its spoil with fire completely, to the
Lord your God, and it will be an age-abiding mound
of ruins; it will not be built again.
17And nothing of the condemned
place shall cleave to your hand, so that the
Lord returns from the fury of his anger and shows you mercy, and he is merciful to you, and he multiplies you, as he swore to your fathers.
18For you shall obey the
Lord your God, by keeping all his commandments which I am commanding you today, by doing what
is upright in the eyes of the
Lord your God.
Reference(s) in Chapter 13: v.1 ↔ Mark 13:22.