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But that prophet or the one who told the future through dreams is to be put to death for he counseled you to turn away from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. He was driving you away from the way that the Lord, your God, had ordered must be your path. You must purge this evil from your midst.

[a]Even if your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or your wife, or your closest friend secretly tempts you saying, “Let us go and serve other gods whom neither you nor your forefathers have known,” the gods of the people living around us, whether they be near or far, wherever they are upon the whole face of the earth,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 13:7 Like Jesus, who was tempted by his friend Peter (see Mt 16:21-23), we must also be vigilant and strong against temptation especially from those closest to us.