American Standard Version
"but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. "
— Deuteronomy 13:9, American Standard Version
“But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.”
“but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.”
“Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.”
“But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.”
“But 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.”
“But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.”
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that 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;
of the gods of the peoples that 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;
thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.
If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,