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you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of the dream; 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.
You shall walk after the Lord your God, and you shall fear him, and you shall keep his commandments, and you shall listen to his voice, and you shall hold fast to him.
And that prophet, or that dreamer of the dream, shall be put to death, for he spoke to lead you astray from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed you from slavery — to thrust you out of the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in. And you shall remove the evil from among your own selves.
But if your brother from your father or from your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife in your bosom, or the friend who is as your own soul, secretly urges you, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, whom neither you nor your fathers have known —
you shall not consent to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not spare him; you shall not have compassion on him, nor shall you cover him up.
And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because he sought to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Lawless men have gone out from among you and have turned away all the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, whom you have not known —
you shall surely destroy all the inhabitants in that city with the slaughter of the sword; you shall devote it and all that is in it to utter destruction.
And all its spoil you shall gather into its streets, and you shall burn the city with fire, and all its spoil, with all the people together, before the Lord your God; and it shall be uninhabited forever, it shall not be rebuilt again.
Nothing from what is devoted to destruction shall cling to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fury of his anger and grant you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, just as the Lord swore to your fathers.
This is if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, doing what is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.