⁶“If your brother, the son of your mother or your son or your daughter or your wife whom you embrace^g or your intimate friend^h in secrecy says,ⁱ ‘Let us go and let us serve other gods!’ gods that you and your ancestors^j have not known, ⁷from among the gods of the people who are around you, those near you or those far from you,^k from one end of the earth and up to the other end of the earth, ⁸you must not give in to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall not have compassion, and you shall not cover up^l for him. ⁹But you shall certainly kill him; your hand shall be first against him to kill him and next the hand of all of the people. ¹⁰And you shall stone him with stones and let him die, for he tried to seduce you from Yahweh your God, the one bringing you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. ¹¹And all of Israel shall hear, and they shall fear, and they shall not continue to act^m according to this evil thing in your midst.

¹²“If you hear in one of your towns which Yahweh your God is giving to you to live in, someone saying thatⁿ ¹³worthless men^o have gone out from your midst and have seduced the inhabitants of their town, saying,^p ‘Let us go and serve other gods!’ whom you have not known, ¹⁴then you shall inquire and examine and interrogate thoroughly, and, look! It is true; the thing has actually been done, this detestable thing in your midst,

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Footnotes

gLiterally “or the wife of your embrace”
hLiterally “your friend who is like your soul/inner self”
iLiterally “to say”
jOr “fathers”
kLiterally “the near ones to you or the distant ones from you”
lOr “conceal” him
mLiterally “they shall not add to do”
nLiterally “to say”
oLiterally “sons of Belial”
pLiterally “to say”