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for the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God is testing you to find out if you love the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God with all your heart and with all your soul. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>You shall follow the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled rebellion against the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>If your brother, your mothers son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>So you shall stone him to death because he has sought to seduce you from the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>If you hear in one of your cities, which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God is giving you to live in, <i>anyone</i> saying <i>that</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>some worthless men have gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (whom you have not known), <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true <i>and</i> the matter established that this abomination has been done among you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Then you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>if you will listen to the voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/deuteronomy/13.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />If there arise among you a prophet, or one that dreameth dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />If there shall arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and give thee a sign or a wonder.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'When there ariseth in your midst a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he hath given unto thee a sign or wonder,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/a_discourse_concerning_the_being_and_attributes_of_god/xiv_proposition_xiv_fifthly_as.htm">Fifthly, as this Revelation, to the Judgment of Right and Sober Reason,</a><br></span><span class="snippet">appears of itself highly credible and probable, and abundantly recommends itself in its native simplicity, merely by its own intrinsic goodness and excellency, to the practice of the most rational and considering men, who are desirous in all their actions to have satisfaction and comfort and good hope within themselves, from the conscience of what they do: So it is moreover positively and directly proved to be actually and immediately sent to us from God, by the many infallible signs and miracles <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/a_discourse_concerning_the_being_and_attributes_of_god/xiv_proposition_xiv_fifthly_as.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Samuel Clarke—</span><span class="citation2">A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lang/john_knox_and_the_reformation/chapter_viii_knoxs_writings_from.htm">Knox's Writings from Abroad: Beginning of the Scottish Revolution, 1556-1558</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Knox was about this time summoned to be one of the preachers to the English at Geneva. He sent in advance Mrs. Bowes and his wife, visited Argyll and Glenorchy (now Breadalbane), wrote (July 7) an epistle bidding the brethren be diligent in reading and discussing the Bible, and went abroad. His effigy was presently burned by the clergy, as he had not appeared in answer to a second summons, and he was outlawed in absence. It is not apparent that Knox took any part in the English translation of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lang/john_knox_and_the_reformation/chapter_viii_knoxs_writings_from.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Lang—</span><span class="citation2">John Knox and the Reformation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/with_before_after.htm">With, Before, After</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Enoch walked with God,'--GENESIS v. 22. 'Walk before Me.'--GENESIS xvii. 1. 'Ye shall walk after the Lord your God.'--DEUTERONOMY xiii. 4. You will have anticipated, I suppose, my purpose in doing what I very seldom do--cutting little snippets out of different verses and putting them together. You see that these three fragments, in their resemblances and in their differences, are equally significant and instructive. They concur in regarding life as a walk--a metaphor which expresses continuity, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/with_before_after.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/chapter_xxxvi_the_feeding_of.htm">The Feeding of the Four Thousand - to Dalmanutha - the Sign from Heaven' - Journey to Cæsarea Philippi - what is the Leaven of The</a><br></span><span class="snippet">THEY might well gather to Jesus in their thousands, with their wants of body and soul, these sheep wandering without a shepherd; for His Ministry in that district, as formerly in Galilee, was about to draw to a close. And here it is remarkable, that each time His prolonged stay and Ministry in a district were brought to a close with some supper, so to speak, some festive entertainment on his part. The Galilean Ministry had closed with the feeding of the five thousand, the guests being mostly from <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/chapter_xxxvi_the_feeding_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_ii/fifth_sunday_after_epiphany.htm">Fifth Sunday after Epiphany</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: Colossians 3, 12-17. 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: 14 and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16 Let the Word <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_ii/fifth_sunday_after_epiphany.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. II</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barclay/theses_theologicae_and_an_apology_for_the_true_christian_divinity/proposition_xiv_concerning_the_power.htm">Concerning the Power of the Civil Magistrate in Matters Purely Religious, and Pertaining to the Conscience. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Concerning the Power of the Civil Magistrate in Matters purely Religious, and pertaining to the Conscience. Since God hath assumed to himself the power and Dominion of the Conscience, who alone can rightly instruct and govern it, therefore it is not lawful [1226] for any whosoever, by virtue of any authority or principality they bear in the government of this world, to force the consciences of others; and therefore all killing, banishing, fining, imprisoning, and other such things which are inflicted <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barclay/theses_theologicae_and_an_apology_for_the_true_christian_divinity/proposition_xiv_concerning_the_power.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Robert Barclay—</span><span class="citation2">Theses Theologicae and An Apology for the True Christian Divinity</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_8/chapter_iiithe_medes_and_the.htm">The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire</a><br></span><span class="snippet">THE FALL OF NINEVEH AND THE RISE OF THE CHALDAEAN AND MEDIAN EMPIRES--THE XXVIth EGYPTIAN DYNASTY: CYAXARES, ALYATTES, AND NEBUCHADREZZAR. The legendary history of the kings of Media and the first contact of the Medes with the Assyrians: the alleged Iranian migrations of the Avesta--Media-proper, its fauna and flora; Phraortes and the beginning of the Median empire--Persia proper and the Persians; conquest of Persia by the Medes--The last monuments of Assur-bani-pal: the library of Kouyunjik--Phraortes <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_8/chapter_iiithe_medes_and_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_6_jewish_homes.htm">Jewish Homes</a><br></span><span class="snippet">It may be safely asserted, that the grand distinction, which divided all mankind into Jews and Gentiles, was not only religious, but also social. However near the cities of the heathen to those of Israel, however frequent and close the intercourse between the two parties, no one could have entered a Jewish town or village without feeling, so to speak, in quite another world. The aspect of the streets, the building and arrangement of the houses, the municipal and religious rule, the manners and customs <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_6_jewish_homes.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/deuteronomy.htm">Deuteronomy</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Owing to the comparatively loose nature of the connection between consecutive passages in the legislative section, it is difficult to present an adequate summary of the book of Deuteronomy. In the first section, i.-iv. 40, Moses, after reviewing the recent history of the people, and showing how it reveals Jehovah's love for Israel, earnestly urges upon them the duty of keeping His laws, reminding them of His spirituality and absoluteness. 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