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Deuteronomy 13 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Idolatrous Cities to Be Destroyed
12 If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to inhabit, thou hear some say:
13 There are gone forth children of Belial out of the midst of thee, and have averted the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:
14 inquire carefully, and diligently, the truth of the thing being looked into, if thou find it certain that is said, and that this abomination is in act committed,
15 thou shalt forthwith strike the inhabitants of that city in the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, unto the very beasts.
16 What stuff also soever there is, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shalt burn it with the city it-self, so that thou consume all things to the Lord thy God, and it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more,
17 and there shall nothing stick in thy hand of that anathema: that our Lord may be turned from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he sware to thy fathers,
18 when thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayest do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.
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