7. “Suppose your brother—your mother’s son—or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your best friend of your own soul misleads you secretly, saying, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods’—that you and your fathers have not known,
8. from among the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other.
9. You are not to give in or listen to him, your eye is not to pity him, and you are not to spare or conceal him.
10. Instead, you will surely put him to death. Your hand should be the first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
11. You are to stone him with stones to death because he tried to entice you away from Adonai your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
12. Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and never again will they do such an evil thing as this in your midst.
13. “Suppose you hear it said in one of your cities, which Adonai your God is giving you to dwell in,
14. that worthless fellows have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods’—that you have not known.
15. Then you are to investigate, search out and inquire thoroughly. If indeed it is true and the matter certain that this abomination has been done in your midst,
16. you will surely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its livestock with the sword.
17. You are to gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and you are to burn with fire the city and all its plunder—all of it to Adonai your God. It will be a ruin forever—it shall never be built again.