Deuteronomy 13:12

When you hear [someone] in one of your cities, which your God YHWH is giving to you to dwell there, saying,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

In Context

11and all Israel hears and fears, and does not add to do like this evil thing in your midst.

13Men, sons of worthlessness, have gone out of your midst, and they force away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which you have not known),

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:20and those who are left hear and fear, and do not add to do according to this evil thing in your midst anymore.

Joshua 22:11And the sons of Israel hear, saying, “Behold, the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have built the altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the districts of the Jordan, at the passage of the sons of Israel.”

Ezekiel 23:48And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, || And all the women have been instructed, || And they do not do according to your wickedness.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 13:7-12

6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither… Read the whole commentary →

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