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Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the earth to the other,
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Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,
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But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
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With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage:
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That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.
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If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to dwell in, thou hear some say:
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Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:
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Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by looking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be certain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,
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Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle.
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And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with the city itself, so as to consume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.
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And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,