Deu 13 | EngLXX | STEP | And if there arise within you a prophet, or one who dreams a dream, and he gives you a signor a wonder,

‏ Deuteronomy 13

1 And if there arise within you a prophet, or one who dreams a dream, and he gives you a signor a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go and serveother gods, which you⌃ know not; 3 you⌃ shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, becausethe Lord your God tries you, to know whether you⌃ love your God with all your heart and with all yoursoul. 4 You⌃ shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and you⌃ shall hear his voice, andattach yourselves to him. 5 And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make youerr from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed you from bondage, tothrust you out of the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in: so shall you abolish the evilfrom among you. 6 And if your brother by your father or mother, or your son, or daughter, or your wife inyour bosom, or friend who is equal to your own soul, entreat you secretly, saying, Let us go and serveother gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 of the gods of the nations that are round about you, who are near you or at a distancefrom you, from one end of the earth to the other; 8 you shall not consent to him, neither shall you hearken to him; and your eye shall notspare him, you shall feel no regret for him, neither shall you at all protect him: 9 you shall surely report concerning him, and your hands shall be upon him among the firstto kill him, and the hands of all the people at the last. 10 And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because he sought to draw youaway from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not again do according to this evil thingamong you. 12 And if in one of your cities which the Lord God gives you to dwell therein, you shallhear men saying, 13 Evil men have gone out from you, and have caused all the inhabitants of their land tofall away, saying, Let us go and worship other gods, whom you⌃ knew not, 14 then you shall enquire and ask, and search diligently, and behold,if the thing is clearly true, and this abomination has taken place among you, 15 you shall utterly destroy all the dwellers in that land with the edge of the sword; you⌃shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it. 16 And all its spoils you shall gather into its public ways, and you shall burn the citywith fire, and all its spoils publicly before the Lord your God; and it shall be uninhabited for ever,it shall not be built again. 17 And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to your hand, that the Lord may turnfrom his fierce anger, and show you mercy, and pity you, and multiply you, as he sware to your fathers; 18 if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments, all that Icharge you this day, to do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.