¹¹ After you kill those who tempted you, all the Israelites will hear about it. And they will be too scared to do an evil thing like that again.

¹² The Lord your God is giving you towns to live in. But suppose you hear something bad about one of those towns. ¹³ You hear that people who cause trouble have appeared among you. They’ve tried to get the people of their town to do something wrong. They’ve said, “Let’s go and worship other gods.” But you haven’t known anything about those gods before.