Deuteronomy 13:6–18

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.

^12o“If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to dwell in, saying, ¹³⁵‘Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” ’—which you have not known—¹⁴then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an ⁶abomination was committed among you, ¹⁵you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock—with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and ⁷completely ^pburn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the Lord your God. It shall be ^qa ⁸heap forever; it shall not be built again. ^17rSo none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the Lord may ^sturn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and ⁹multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers, ¹⁸because you have listened to the voice of the Lord your God, ^tto keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.