Num 25:2-4, 7-8, Deu 13:1-15, 17:2-5, 18:20 | ESV | STEP | These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods , and the people ate and bowed down to their gods .

Numbers 25:2-4

2 ^aThese invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. 4 And the Lord said to Moses, ^b“Take all the chiefs of the people and ^chang ^{▼▼Or impale} them in the sun before the Lord, ^ethat the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”

Numbers 25:7-8

7 ^fWhen Phinehas ^gthe son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand 8 and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.

Deuteronomy 13:1-15

1 “If a prophet or ^ha dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and ⁱthe sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God ^jis testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall ^kwalk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and ^lhold fast to him. 5 But ^mthat prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. ⁿSo you shall purge the evil ^{▼▼Or evil person} from your midst.

6 ^p“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or ^qthe wife you embrace ^{▼▼Hebrew the wife of your bosom} or your friend ^swho is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ ^twhich neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some ^uof the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall ^vnot yield to him or listen to him, nor ^wshall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. ^xYour hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 ^yYou shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And ^zall Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

12 “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there, 13 that certain ^aaworthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, 14 then you shall inquire and make search and ask ^abdiligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, 15 you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, ^{▼▼That is, setting apart ( devoting) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 17:2-5

2 ^ad“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, ^aein transgressing his covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or ^afthe sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, ^agwhich I have forbidden, 4 and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire ^ahdiligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you ^aishall stone that man or woman to death with stones.

Deuteronomy 18:20

20 ^ajBut the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or ^{▼▼Or and} who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’