Deuteronomy 13:12

“When you are living in one of the towns in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, you may hear

Translation for Translators

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

11When they are executed, all the Israeli people will hear what happened, and they will become afraid, and none of them will do such an evil thing again.

13that some worthless people there among you [IDM] are deceiving the people of their town, saying, ‘Let’s go and worship other gods,’ but they are gods that you have never heard about before.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:20And/Because when that person is punished, everyone will hear what has happened, and they will be afraid, and no one will dare to act that way any more.

Joshua 22:11But the other Israelis who were still at Shiloh heard about the altar that those men had built.

Ezekiel 23:48In that way I will cause them to stop their immoral behavior. It will warn other women to not imitate/do what you people of Jerusalem are doing.

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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