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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend who
is as thine own soul should entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou nor thy fathers have known,
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namely, of the gods of the peoples who
are round about you, near unto thee or far off from thee, from the
one end of the earth even unto the
other end of the earth,
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thou shalt not consent with him nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him; neither shalt thou have compassion; neither shalt thou conceal him,
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but thou must kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards the hand of all the people.
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And thou must stone him with stones, and he shall die because he has sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of slavery;
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so that all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
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If thou shalt hear in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God has given thee to dwell there, that it is said,
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certain men, the sons of Belial, are gone out from among you and have incited the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known,
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then shalt thou enquire and search and ask diligently; and, behold,
if it is the truth
and the thing certain
that such abomination is wrought among you,
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thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly with all that
is therein and the beasts thereof, with the edge of the sword.
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And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of its plaza and shalt burn the city with fire and all the spoil thereof, all of it, unto the LORD thy God; and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall never be built again.