Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises
among
you
and proclaims
a sign or wonder to
you
,
If there
arise
among
you
a prophet ,
or a
dreamer of dreams ,
and giveth
thee
a sign or a
wonder,
and if
the sign or wonder he
has
spoken
to you
comes
about
, but
he says
, “
Let us follow
other gods (
which you
have
not known )
and let us worship
them ,”
And the sign or the
wonder come
to pass
, whereof
he spake
unto
thee
, saying,
Let us go
after
other gods ,
which thou
hast
not known ,
and let us serve
them ;
you
must
not listen
to
the words of that prophet or dreamer .
For the LORD your God is
testing
you to find
out
whether you
love Him
with all your heart and with all your soul.
Thou
shalt
not hearken
unto
the words of that prophet ,
or that
dreamer of
dreams:
for the LORD your God proveth
you ,
to know
whether ye
love the
LORD
your
God
with all your heart and with all your soul.
You
are
to
follow
the LORD your God and fear Him .
Keep His commandments and listen
to
His voice ;
serve Him and hold
fast
to
Him.
Ye
shall
walk
after
the LORD your God ,
and fear him ,
and
keep his commandments ,
and obey
his voice ,
and
ye
shall
serve him ,
and cleave
unto
him.
Such
a
prophet or dreamer must
be put to death ,
because he has
advocated
rebellion
against
the LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from
the house of slavery;
he
has
tried
to turn
you
from
the way in
which the LORD your
God has
commanded you
to walk. So you
must
purge
the evil from among
you
.
And
that
prophet ,
or that
dreamer of
dreams,
shall
be put to death ;
because he hath
spoken
to
turn
you
away
from
the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt ,
and redeemed you out
of
the house of bondage,
to thrust
thee
out
of
the way which the LORD thy
God commanded thee
to walk in
. So shalt
thou
put
the evil away
from the
midst
of
thee
.
If your
very
own
brother, or your
son or daughter, or the wife you
embrace
, or your
closest
friend secretly entices
you
, saying, “
Let us go and worship
other gods ”
(
which neither
you
nor
your
fathers
have
known,
If thy
brother, the
son
of
thy
mother,
or thy
son ,
or thy
daughter, or the wife of
thy
bosom
, or thy
friend ,
which
is
as
thine
own
soul,
entice
thee
secretly, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods ,
which thou
hast
not
known, thou,
nor
thy
fathers;
the gods of the peoples
around
you, whether
near
or far, whether
from one end of the earth or
the other ),
Namely,
of
the gods of the people
which
are
round
about
you, nigh
unto
thee,
or far off
from
thee
, from the
one end of the earth even
unto
the other end
of
the
earth;
you
must
not yield
to
him
or
listen
to
him .
Show
him no
pity, and
do
not
spare him
or
shield
him .
Thou
shalt
not consent
unto
him ,
nor
hearken
unto
him ;
neither
shall
thine
eye
pity him
, neither
shalt
thou
spare ,
neither
shalt
thou
conceal
him :
Instead,
you
must
surely kill him .
Your
hand must
be the
first against
him to put him to death, and then
the hands
of all the people.
But
thou
shalt
surely kill him ;
thine
hand shall
be first upon
him to put him to death, and afterwards
the hand
of all the people.
Stone him to
death
for
trying
to turn
you
away from the LORD your
God, who
brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out
of
the house of slavery
.
And
thou
shalt
stone him with
stones,
that
he
die;
because
he
hath
sought
to thrust
thee
away from the LORD thy
God, which
brought thee
out of the land of Egypt, from
the house of bondage
.
Then
all Israel will
hear and be
afraid
, and will
never
again
do such a
wicked
thing
among you.
And
all Israel shall
hear ,
and fear
, and shall
do no
more
any
such wickedness
as
this
is
among you.
If ,
regarding
one of the
cities the LORD your
God is
giving
you
to inhabit
, you
hear
it
said
If thou
shalt
hear
say
in
one of thy
cities ,
which
the LORD thy
God hath
given
thee
to dwell
there
, saying,
that
wicked
men have
arisen
from among you and have led
the people
of their city astray
, saying, “
Let us go and serve other gods ”
(
which you
have not known ),
Certain
men ,
the
children
of
Belial,
are
gone
out
from among you ,
and have withdrawn
the inhabitants
of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods ,
which ye
have not known ;
then you
must
inquire, investigate
, and interrogate
thoroughly.
And if it is
established
with
certainty
that this
abomination has
been
committed
among you ,
Then shalt
thou
inquire, and
make
search
, and ask
diligently;
and ,
behold,
if it be
truth,
and
the
thing
certain,
that such
abomination is
wrought
among you ;
you
must
surely put
the inhabitants of that city to
the sword .
Devote
to
destruction
all its
people
and livestock
.
Thou
shalt
surely smite
the inhabitants of that city with
the edge
of
the
sword ,
destroying
it
utterly,
and
all that
is
therein,
and the
cattle
thereof,
with
the
edge
of
the
sword
.
And you
are
to
gather all its
plunder
in
the middle
of the public
square
, and completely
burn the city and all its
plunder
as
a
whole
burnt
offering
to
the LORD your
God .
The
city
must
remain
a
mound
of
ruins
forever,
never
to
be rebuilt
.
And thou
shalt
gather all the spoil
of it
into
the midst
of
the
street
thereof
, and shalt
burn with
fire
the city ,
and all the spoil
thereof
every
whit,
for
the
LORD thy
God :
and
it
shall
be an
heap
for
ever;
it
shall
not
be
built
again
.
Nothing
devoted
to
destruction
shall cling
to your
hands,
so
that the LORD will
turn from His fierce
anger, grant
you
mercy, show
you
compassion, and multiply you
as He swore
to
your
fathers ,
And
there
shall cleave
nought
of
the
cursed
thing
to thine
hand:
that the LORD may
turn from the
fierceness
of
his anger, and
show
thee
mercy, and
have
compassion upon
thee
, and multiply thee,
as he hath
sworn
unto
thy
fathers ;
because
you
obey
the LORD your
God, keeping
all His commandments I am
giving
you
today
and
doing
what
is right in the eyes of the LORD your
God.
When
thou
shalt
hearken
to
the voice
of
the
LORD thy
God, to
keep
all his commandments which
I command
thee
this
day,
to
do
that
which
is right in the eyes of the LORD thy
God.
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