Deuteronomy 13:14-16
The Voice
14 If you ever hear a report like this, conduct a careful, thorough investigation. If you establish conclusively that the report is true, that such a horrible thing has been done within your nation, 15 then bring your swords and execute everyone who lives in that city! Destroy it completely with everything in it—even the livestock. 16 Pile all the city’s goods in the middle of the public square, and then burn down the whole city and everything in it. This will be a burnt offering showing your complete loyalty to the Eternal your God. That city must never be rebuilt; let it remain a ruin forever.
Deuteronomy 13:14-16
New International Version
14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly.(A) And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you,(B) 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,[a](C) both its people and its livestock.(D) 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town(E) and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God.(F) That town is to remain a ruin(G) forever, never to be rebuilt,
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 13:15 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
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