Deuteronomy 13:12–18

^12rIf thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, ¹³Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have ^swithdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; ¹⁴then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask ^tdiligently; and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; ¹⁵thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, ^udestroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt ^xburn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be ^ya heap for ever; it shall not be built again. ¹⁷And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: ^athat the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, ^bas he hath sworn unto thy fathers; ¹⁸when thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, ^cto do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

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