28 Hear and do all these words which I command you, that it may be good for you and your children after you for ever, if you do good and acceptable things in the sight of the Lord your God.

29 And when the LORD thy God shall destroy from before thee the nations to whom thou goest to take possession, and thou shalt take them and dwell in their land;

30 Then take heed lest thou fall into a snare, following them, after they have been destroyed from before thee, and seek not their gods, saying, 'As these nations have served their gods, so will I also do.'

31 Thou shalt not do these things unto the LORD thy God, for whatsoever the LORD abhors, whatsoever he hates, they do unto their gods: they burn their sons and their daughters in the fire of their gods.

32 Whatsoever I command you, seek to do; do not add to this, nor subtract from that.

Chapter 13

1 If a prophet or a dreamer arises in your midst, and presents to you a sign or a wonder,

2 And the sign or wonder of which he spoke to you will come to pass, and he will say, 'Let us go after other gods, whom you do not know, and we will serve them,'

3 then thou shalt not hearken unto the words of this prophet, or to this dreamer; For by this the LORD your God is tempting you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

4 Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, keep his commandments, and hear his voice, and serve him, and cleave unto him.

5 And that prophet or dreamer shall be put to death, because he persuaded you to depart from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and delivered you out of the house of bondage, desiring to turn you away from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to go. and so destroy evil from among you.

6 If thy brother shall persuade thee in secret, or thy mother's son, or thy son, or thy daughter, or thy wife in thy bosom, or thy friend, who is to thee as thy soul, saying, Let us go, and let us serve other gods, which thou and thy fathers knew not,

7 To the gods of the nations that are round about thee, whether they are near to thee, or far from thee, from one end of the earth to the other,

8 then do not agree with him, and do not listen to him; and let not thy eye spare him, and have no pity on him, nor cover him;