“but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 13 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.