Deuteronomy 13:9–16

⁹“^aBut you shall surely kill him; ^byour hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

¹⁰“So you shall stone him ¹to death because he has sought ^ato seduce you from the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of ²slavery.

¹¹“Then ^aall Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.

¹²“If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that

¹³some worthless men have gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘^aLet us go and serve other gods’ (whom you have not known),

¹⁴then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,

^15ayou shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, ¹utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword.

¹⁶“^aThen you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; and it shall be a ^1bruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.