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

2 And the sign or the wonder of which he spoke comes to pass, and then he says, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;

3 You must 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.

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

5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, and taught you to turn from the way that the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you purge the evil from among you.

6 ¶ If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as dear to you as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither you or your fathers have known;

7 Namely, of the gods of the people who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

8 You shall not consent to him, or listen to him; nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him:

9 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

10 And you must stone him with stones, so that he dies; because he has sought to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

12 ¶ If you shall hear it said in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell in,

13 That certain men, the children of Belial, have sprung up among you, and have led the inhabitants of their city astray, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;

14 Then shall you inquire, and search, and make an investigation; and, behold, and if the report proves true, and it is certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

15 You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, and all that is in it, and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

16 And you shall gather all its spoil into the middle of the city square, and shall burn the entire city and all its spoil with fire, for the LORD your God: and it shall be an heap forever; it shall not be built again.

17 And nothing of the accursed thing shall cling 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 has sworn to your fathers;

18 When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.