Deuteronomy 13:1–11

Punishment of Apostates

13“If there arises among you a prophet or a ^adreamer of dreams, ^band he gives you a sign or a wonder, ²and ^cthe sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ ³you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God ^dis testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴You shall ^ewalk ¹after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and ^fhold fast to Him. ⁵But ^gthat prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. ^hSo you shall ²put away the evil from your midst.

⁶ⁱ“If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, ^jthe wife ³of your bosom, or your friend ^kwho is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, ⁷of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, ⁸you shall ^lnot ⁴consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; ⁹but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to ^mdeath, and afterward the hand of all the people. ¹⁰And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ¹¹So all Israel shall hear and ⁿfear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you.