13 “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. 5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. 6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you. 12 “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there, 13 that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, 14 then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, 15 you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. 17 None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers, 18 if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

“If a prophet or <cr>1</cr>a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

Deuteronomy 13:1

and <cr>1</cr>the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’

Deuteronomy 13:2

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God <cr>1</cr>is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 13:3

You shall <cr>1</cr>walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and <cr>2</cr>hold fast to him.

Deuteronomy 13:4

But <cr>1</cr>that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. <cr>2</cr>So you shall purge the evil<ft>1</ft> from your midst.

Deuteronomy 13:5

<cr>1</cr>“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or <cr>2</cr>the wife you embrace<ft>1</ft> or your friend <cr>3</cr>who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ <cr>4</cr>which neither you nor your fathers have known,

Deuteronomy 13:6

some <cr>1</cr>of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,

Deuteronomy 13:7

you shall <cr>1</cr>not yield to him or listen to him, nor <cr>2</cr>shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.

Deuteronomy 13:8

But you shall kill him. <cr>1</cr>Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

Deuteronomy 13:9

<cr>1</cr>You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Deuteronomy 13:10

And <cr>1</cr>all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

Deuteronomy 13:11

“If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there,

Deuteronomy 13:12

that certain <cr>1</cr>worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known,

Deuteronomy 13:13

then you shall inquire and make search and ask <cr>1</cr>diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 13:14

you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction,<ft>1</ft> all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 13:15

You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and <cr>1</cr>burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a <cr>2</cr>heap forever. It shall not be built again.

Deuteronomy 13:16

<cr>1</cr>None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, <cr>2</cr>that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, <cr>3</cr>as he swore to your fathers,

Deuteronomy 13:17

if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, <cr>1</cr>keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 13:18

 1 “If a prophet or  a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and  the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God  is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall  walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and  hold fast to him. 5 But  that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk.  So you shall purge the evil  from your midst. 6  “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or  the wife you embrace  or your friend  who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’  which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some  of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall  not yield to him or listen to him, nor  shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him.  Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10  You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And  all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you. 12 “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there, 13 that certain  worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, 14 then you shall inquire and make search and ask  diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, 15 you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction,  all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and  burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a  heap forever. It shall not be built again. 17  None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand,  that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you,  as he swore to your fathers, 18 if you obey the voice of the Lord your God,  keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

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The ESV is derived from the 1971 text edition of the Revised Standard Version (RSV). ESV Translation Oversight Committee member Wayne Grudem claims that approximately eight percent (or about 60,000 words) of the 1971 RSV text being used for the ESV was revised as of first publication in 2001. Grudem states that the committee removed "every trace of liberal influence that had caused such criticism from evangelicals when the RSV was first published in 1952." Although, Grudem also states that much of the 1971 RSV text left unchanged by the committee "is simply 'the best of the best' of the KJV tradition."

With regard to gender language, the ESV Translation Oversight Committee state that "the goal of the ESV is to render literally what is in the original."[9] The committee expands on this position in claiming that, although the ESV avoids using gender-neutral language (for the purpose of preserving contextual meaning found in the original text), the translation does utilize gender-neutral language in specific cases. The committee further state that their objective was "transparency to the original text, allowing the reader to understand the original on its own terms rather than in the terms of our present-day Western culture."[9] The ESV Study Bible often details in its commentary why a complementarian interpretation of the original text may have been rendered in translation.

OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th ed., 1997); additional sources in difficult cases
NT: UBS Greek New Testament (5th corrected ed.); Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed., 2012)

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