6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;
7Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;
8Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;
9But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
10Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
11And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.
12And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,
