¹² and they ^(A)forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed ^(B)other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they ^(C)bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.

²⁵ Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt;

¹⁸ so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, ^(A)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, ^(B)and that there may not be among you a root bearing ^(C)bitterness or wormwood;

⁵ But ^(A)that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. ^(B)So you shall ^[a]put away the evil from your midst.

¹⁴ You shall not go after other gods, ^(A)the gods of the peoples who are all around you ¹⁵ (for ^(B)the Lord your God is a jealous God ^(C)among you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.