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, ¹⁵then you shall certainly strike down the inhabitants of that town with the edge^q of the sword; you shall destroy it and everything in it, its domestic animals with the edge^r of the sword. ¹⁶And then you shall gather all of its booty into the middle of its public square, and you shall burn the town and all of its war-booty totally for Yahweh your God, and it shall be a pile of rubble forever;^s it shall not be built again.

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Footnotes

mLiterally “they shall not add to do”
nLiterally “to say”
oLiterally “sons of Belial”
pLiterally “to say”
qLiterally “mouth”
rLiterally “mouth”
sLiterally “a tell/ruin forever”