1“Everything that I command you: you shall be watchful to do it. You shall not add onto it, and you shall not subtract from it.
2“When a prophet or one who has a dream will get up among you and will give you a sign or a wonder, 3and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you—saying, ‘Let’s go after other gods,’ whom you haven’t known, ‘and let’s serve them’—will come to pass, 4you shall not listen to that prophet’s words or to that one who has the dream, because YHWH, your God, is testing you, to know whether you are loving YHWH, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul. 5You shall go after YHWH, your God, and you shall fear Him, and you shall observe His commandments and listen to His voice and serve Him and cling to Him. 6And that prophet or that one who has the dream shall be put to death, because he spoke a misrepresentation about YHWH, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt and who redeemed you from a house of slaves, to drive you from the way in which YHWH, your God, commanded you to go. So you shall burn away what is bad from among you.
7“When your brother, your mother’s son or your father’s son, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own self will entice you in secret, saying, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods,’ whom you haven’t known, you and your fathers, 8from the gods of the peoples who are all around you, those close to you or those far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, 9you shall not consent to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not pity him, and you shall not have compassion and shall not cover it up for him.10But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be on him first to put him to death, and all the people’s hand thereafter.11And you shall stone him with stones so he dies because he sought to drive you away from YHWH, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from a house of slaves. 12And all Israel will hear and fear and won’t continue to do a bad thing like this among you.
13“When you’ll hear in one of your cities that YHWH, your God, is giving you to live there, saying, 14‘Good-for-nothing people have gone out from among you and driven away their city’s residents, saying: “Let’s go and serve other gods,” whom you haven’t known,’ 15and you’ll inquire and investigate and ask well, and, here, the thing is true—this offensive thing was done among you— 16you shall strike that city’s residents by the sword, completely destroying it and everything in it and its animals with the sword. 17And you shall gather all its spoil into the middle of its square, and you shall burn the city and all its spoil in fire entirely to YHWH, your God, and it shall be a tell eternally. It shall not be rebuilt again. 18And let nothing from the complete destruction cling in your hand, so that YHWH will turn back from His flaring anger and will give you mercy. And He’ll be merciful to you and multiply you as He swore to your fathers 19when you’ll listen to the voice of YHWH, your God, to observe all His commandments that I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of YHWH, your God.