- If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known,
- gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other),
- do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him.
- You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
- Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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- "If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,
- of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),
- you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.
- "But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
- "So you shall stone him to death because he has sought to seduce you from the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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