Deuteronomy Chapter 13

Idolaters out to death

In the Tanach verse 1 of chapter 13 is verse 32 from chapter 12

13:1 IF a prophet stands up among you , or a dreamer of dreams, and gives y’all a sign or a wonder,
13:2 And the sign or the wonder*הָאוֹת וְהַמּוֹפֵת
A Sign or a wonder according to Rahsi, a sign is a supernatural event in heaven an a wonder is a miraculous event on earth. According to Ramban, a sign is a miracle that the prophet foretells, and a wonder is one that he performs spontaneously. – From the The Chumash: The Stone Edition The Torah: Haftaros and Five Megillos with a Commentary Anthologized from the Rabbinic Writings
happens, of which he spoke to y’all , saying Let’s go after other godsאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here
, that you haven’t known, and let us worship them;
13:3 You will not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams because YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
is testing you, in order to find out whether you really do love YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut.... This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
with all your heart and with all your soulנַפְשְׁכֶם
Transliteration: nep̄eš Pronunciation:neh’-fesh feminine noun Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here
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13:4 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut.… This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, y’all shall follow and fear Him, his commandmentsמִצְוֺתָיו
Transliteration: miṣôṯāyv – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Plural Construct – Meaning: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For more info click here
shall y’all observe and to His voice shall you listen; Him shall serve y’all and to Him shall ya’ll keep close.
13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream, shall be put to death ; because he has spoken perversion against YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, who takes you out of the land of Egyptמִצְרַיִם
Transliteration:miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here
, who redeemeds you out of the house of slavery, to make y’all stray from the pathהַדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration:dereḵ Pronunciation:deh’-rek way, road, distance, journey, manner, path, direction For more info click here
on which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
has commanded y’all to go – and you destroy the evilהָרָע
Transliteration: hārāʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here
 from among y’all .
13:6 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] like your own soulכְּנַפְשְׁךָ
Transliteration: kᵊnap̄šᵊḵā – Meaning: like your own soul, like your own self, like your own life, like your own creature, like your own person, like your own appetite, like your own mind, like your own living being, like your own desire, like your own emotion, like your own passion For more info click here
, tries to entice y’all secretly*בַּסֵּתֶר
Secretly, An enticer to idolatry will usually do his work in seclusion, but the death penalty applies even if the attempt was mad in public. – From The Chumash: The Stone Edition The Torah: Haftaros and Five Megillos with a Commentary Anthologized from the Rabbinic Writings
, saying, Let’s go and worship other godsאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here
, that you didn’t known, you or your forefathers ;
13:7 from the godsמֵאֱלֹהֵי
Pronounced: mē’ĕlōhê In Hebrew grammatical construct is a way of connecting noun-noun pairs. In english, we use “of”, but in Hebrew there are quite a few ways of doing this. של is usually used in place of “of” in Hebrew, but in this case, we modify the first word, with the suffix “ey” (which is what we do for plural words, which God’s name is in Torah), i.e. God of Abraham becomes Elohei Avraham. also can be of his, my or their – See Elohim for more info click here
of the people that are all around you, those near to y’all , or those far off from y’all , from the [one] end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth ;
13:8 You won’t consent to him and not listen to him; your eye shall not take pity on him, you shall not be compassionate*לֹא־תַחְמֹל
you shall not be compassionate. The Torah takes great pains to stress that an enticer has forfeited every claim to mercy, even the kind normally extended to all criminals. Although Jews are commanded to love one another, he is an exception. And although the court is normally required to seek extenuating circumstances that would permit it to save a transgressor from the death penalty, this one is an exception – From The Chumash: The Stone Edition The Torah: Haftaros and Five Megillos with a Commentary Anthologized from the Rabbinic Writing
, or hide him
13:9 Rather you will without question kill him; your hand shall be first against him to kill him, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
13:10 And you will stone him with stones, so that he dies ; because he sought to make y’all stray away from near YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, Who takes y’all out of the land of Egyptמִצְרַיִם
Transliteration:miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here
, from the house of slavery.
13:11 And all Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here
shall hear and fear, and they shall no longer do such an evil thingהָרָע
Transliteration: hārāʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here
 among you.

Idolatrous cities to be destroyed.


13:12 If, in one of your cities, that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
has given y’all to live there, you hear, saying,
13:13 [Certain] men, the sons of Belialבְּלִיַּעַל
Bəlīyyaʿal is a term occurring in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament which later became personified as the devil in Christian texts of the New Testament. Alternate spellings include Baalial, Balial, Belhor, Beliall, Beliar, Berial, Bylyl and Beliya’al. A Hebrew word “used to characterize the wicked, worthless or lawless”.
, have come out from among you, and have driven the inhabitants of their city to go astray, saying, Let’s go and worship other godsאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here
, that y’all haven’t known ;
13:14 Then will you ask, and investigate, and searching diligently ; If the rumor is true, this abomination was done among you;
13:15 You will surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it completely, and all that [is] in it, and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
13:16 And you will gather all the plunder of it into the middle of its open square, and will burn the city completely with fire, and all its plunder to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
and it shall be an eternal heap; it shall not be rebuilt.
13:17 none of banned property may to stay in your hand, so that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
may turn from His fierce anger, and He will give y’all mercy, and have compassion on y’all, and multiply y’all , like He has sworn to your forefathers ;
13:18 Provided you listen to the voice of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, to observe all His commandmentsמִצְוֺתָיו
Transliteration: miṣôṯāyv – Meaning: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For more info click here
which I command y’all today, to do what is right in the eyes of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
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