World English Bible
"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."
— Deuteronomy 13:9, World English Bible
“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 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. ”
“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 your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
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.
You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,