8. You must not agree with them. Don’t listen to them or feel sorry for them. Don’t let them go free or protect them.
9-10. No, you must kill them with stones. You be the first one to pick up stones and throw at them. Then everyone must throw stones to kill them, because they tried to pull you away from the Lord your God. And it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you were slaves.
11. Then all the Israelites will hear about it and be afraid. And they will not do those evil things any more.
12. “The Lord your God has given you cities to live in. Sometimes you might hear some bad news about one of these cities. You might hear that
13. some troublemakers from your own nation are persuading the people of their city to do bad things. They might say to the people of their city, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods.’ (These gods would be gods that you never knew before.)
14. If you hear this kind of news, you must do all you can to learn if it is true. If you learn that it is true, if you prove that such a terrible thing really did happen,