10. Stone them until they are dead because they desired to lead you away from the Lord your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
11. All Israel will hear about this and be afraid. They won’t do that sort of evil thing among you again.
12. Or if you hear about one of your towns the Lord your God is giving you to inhabit, that
13. certain wicked people have gone out from your community and they’ve led the citizens of their town astray by saying: "Come on! We should follow and worship other gods"—ones you haven’t experienced before;
14. at that point you must look into this situation very carefully to see if it’s true. And if it’s definitely true that this detestable thing was done in your community,
15. you must completely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword. Place it and all that is in it under the ban. Put its animals to the sword.