1   If there rise in the middes of thee a prophete, or one that saieth he hath seene a dreame, and foretel a signe and a wonder,

2   and it come to passe which he spake, and he say to thee: ^note Let vs goe, and folow strange goddes, which thou knowest not, and let vs serue them:

3   thou shalt not heare

Precepts and Iudgementes. the wordes of that prophete or dreamer: for the Lord your God tempteth you, that it may appeare whether you loue him or no, with al your hart, and with al your soule.

4   Folow the Lord your God, and feare him, and keepe his commandementes, and heare his voice: him you shal serue, and to him you shal cleaue.

5   And that prophete or forger of dreames shal be slaine: because he spake that he might auert you from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the Land of Ægypt, and redemed you from the house of seruitude: that he might make thee to erre from the way, that the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the euil out of the middes of thee.

6   If thy brother the sonne of thy mother, or thy sonne or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosome, or thy freind, whom thou louest as thy soule, wil perswade thee secretly, saying: Let vs goe, and serue strange goddes, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,

7   of al nations round about, that be nigh or farre, from the beginning vnto the end of the earth,

8   consent not to him, nor heare him, neither let thyne eie spare him to pitie and hide him,

9   but ^note forthwith thou shalt kil him. let thy hand be first vpon him, and after thee al the people lay hand on him.

10   With stones shal he be stoned to death: because he would haue withdrawen thee from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt, from the house of seruitude:

11   that al Israel hearing may feare, and may doe no more any thing like to this.

12   If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shal geue thee to inhabite, thou heare some say:

13   There are gone forth ^note children of Belial out of the middes of thee, and haue auerted the inhabitants of their citie, and haue said: Let vs goe, and serue strange goddes which you know not:

14   inquire carefully, and diligently, the truth of the thing being looked into, if thou finde it certaine that is said, and that this abomination is in act committed,

15   thou shalt forthwith strike the inhabitantes of that citie in the edge of the sworde, and shalt destroy it and al thinges that are in it, vnto the very beastes.

16   What stuffe also soeuer there is, thou shalt gather together in the middes of the streates therof, and shalt burne it with the citie itselfe, so that thou consume al thinges to the Lord thy God, and it be a heape for euer: it shal be built no more,

17   and there shal nothing sticke in thy hand of that anathema:

Precepts and Iudgementes. that our Lord may be turned from the wrath of his furie, and may haue mercie on thee, and multiplie thee as he sware to thy fathers,

18   when thou shalt heare the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping al his preceptes, which I command thee this day, that thou mayest doe that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

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