⁶If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,

⁷Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the earth to the other,

⁸Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,

⁹But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

¹⁰With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage:

¹¹That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.

¹²If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to dwell in, thou hear some say:

¹³Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:

¹⁴Inquire 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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