Deuteronomy 13:6–14

DON’T TOLERATE IDOLATRY

⁶“If your brother, the son of your mother,^B or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let’s go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your ancestors have known, ⁷any of the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other—⁸do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity,^C and do not spare him or shield him.^{n 9}Instead, you must kill him. Your hand is to be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.^{o 10}Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.^{p 11}All Israel will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do anything evil like this among you.^q

¹²“If you hear it said about one of your cities the Lord your God is giving you to live in, ¹³that wicked men have sprung up among you, led the inhabitants of their city astray, and said, ‘Let’s go and worship other gods,’ which you have not known,^{r 14}you are to inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable act has been done among you,