## Deuteronomy Chapter 13

###### Deuteronomy 13:1
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אֵ֣ת כׇּל־הַדָּבָ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר אָנֹכִי֙ מְצַוֶּ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֔ם אֹת֥וֹ תִשְׁמְר֖וּ לַעֲשׂ֑וֹת לֹא־תֹסֵ֣ף עָלָ֔יו וְלֹ֥א תִגְרַ֖ע מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Everything that I am commanding you—be careful to fulfill it; do not add to it and do not subtract from it.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Every matter which I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The entire thing that I command you ["light" as well as "weighty"], shall you take heed to do [A negative commandment is hereby superadded to each of the positive commandments mentioned above (but stripes do not obtain here, there being no stripes for the "take heed" of a positive commandment)]. You shall not add to it and you shall not diminish therefrom [See 4:2]


###### Deuteronomy 13:2
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כִּֽי־יָק֤וּם בְּקִרְבְּךָ֙ נָבִ֔יא א֖וֹ חֹלֵ֣ם חֲל֑וֹם וְנָתַ֥ן אֵלֶ֛יךָ א֖וֹת א֥וֹ מוֹפֵֽת׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If a prophet arises among you or a dreamer of a dream, and he gives you an omen or a miracle,

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If there arise in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he give to you a sign [in the heavens] or a wonder [on earth],


###### Deuteronomy 13:3
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וּבָ֤א הָאוֹת֙ וְהַמּוֹפֵ֔ת אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר אֵלֶ֖יךָ לֵאמֹ֑ר נֵֽלְכָ֞ה אַחֲרֵ֨י אֱלֹהִ֧ים אֲחֵרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יְדַעְתָּ֖ם וְנׇֽעׇבְדֵֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
And the omen or the miracle happens—the one he told you about—saying, ‘‘Let us go after other gods, that you do not know, and let us serve them.’’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And there shall materialize the sign and the wonder which he spoke to you, saying: Let us go after other gods, that you did not know, and let us serve them,


###### Deuteronomy 13:4
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לֹ֣א תִשְׁמַ֗ע אֶל־דִּבְרֵי֙ הַנָּבִ֣יא הַה֔וּא א֛וֹ אֶל־חוֹלֵ֥ם הַחֲל֖וֹם הַה֑וּא כִּ֣י מְנַסֶּ֞ה יְהֹוָ֤ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ אֶתְכֶ֔ם לָדַ֗עַת הֲיִשְׁכֶ֤ם אֹֽהֲבִים֙ אֶת־יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם בְּכׇל־לְבַבְכֶ֖ם וּבְכׇל־נַפְשְׁכֶֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Do not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of a dream, because Adonoy, your God, is testing you to know whether you love Adonoy, your God, wholeheartedly and with your entire beings.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
thou shalt not hearken to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God puts you to the proof, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not pay heed to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the L-rd your G-d is trying you to know whether you love the L-rd your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul.


###### Deuteronomy 13:5
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אַחֲרֵ֨י יְהֹוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֛ם תֵּלֵ֖כוּ וְאֹת֣וֹ תִירָ֑אוּ וְאֶת־מִצְוֺתָ֤יו תִּשְׁמֹ֙רוּ֙ וּבְקֹל֣וֹ תִשְׁמָ֔עוּ וְאֹת֥וֹ תַעֲבֹ֖דוּ וּב֥וֹ תִדְבָּקֽוּן׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
After Adonoy, your God, are you to go, fear Him, keep His commandments, heed His voice, serve Him, and cleave to Him.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
You shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and hold fast to him.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
After the L-rd your G-d shall you go, and Him shall you fear, and His mitzvoth [the Torah of Moses], shall you keep, and His voice [the voice of the prophets] shall you heed, and Him shall you serve [in His Temple], and to Him [i.e., to His ways] shall you cleave [(Be kind, bury the dead, visit the sick, as He did)].


###### Deuteronomy 13:6
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וְהַנָּבִ֣יא הַה֡וּא א֣וֹ חֹלֵם֩ הַחֲל֨וֹם הַה֜וּא יוּמָ֗ת כִּ֣י דִבֶּר־סָ֠רָ֠ה עַל־יְהֹוָ֨ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֜ם הַמּוֹצִ֥יא אֶתְכֶ֣ם**׀** מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֗יִם וְהַפֹּֽדְךָ֙ מִבֵּ֣ית עֲבָדִ֔ים לְהַדִּֽיחֲךָ֙ מִן־הַדֶּ֔רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֧ר צִוְּךָ֛ יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לָלֶ֣כֶת בָּ֑הּ וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ הָרָ֖ע מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃{ס}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream is to be executed, for he has uttered a fabrication about Adonoy, your God—Who took you out of the land of Egypt, and Who redeemed you from the house of bondage—to mislead you from the way that Adonoy, your God, commanded you to go upon, and you will eliminate the evil from within you.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Miżrayim and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death. For of what is "removed" [from the world, it never having been created, and His never having been commanded by Me to speak thus] has he spoken of the L-rd your G-d — who took you out of the land of Egypt, and who redeemed you from the house of bondage. [Had He done only that, it should have been sufficient!] — to turn you from the way on which the L-rd your G-d commanded you to go. And you shall remove the evil from your midst.


###### Deuteronomy 13:7
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כִּ֣י יְסִֽיתְךָ֡ אָחִ֣יךָ בֶן־אִ֠מֶּ֠ךָ אֽוֹ־בִנְךָ֨ אֽוֹ־בִתְּךָ֜ א֣וֹ**׀** אֵ֣שֶׁת חֵיקֶ֗ךָ א֧וֹ רֵֽעֲךָ֛ אֲשֶׁ֥ר כְּנַפְשְׁךָ֖ בַּסֵּ֣תֶר לֵאמֹ֑ר נֵֽלְכָ֗ה וְנַֽעַבְדָה֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר֙ לֹ֣א יָדַ֔עְתָּ אַתָּ֖ה וַאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If one shall incite you, your brother—son of your mother—or your son or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your neighbor who is your soul mate, clandestinely, saying, ‘‘Let us go and serve other gods ’’ whom you never knew—neither you nor your forefathers.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is as thy own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If there incite you your brother [from your father] or the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your soul [i.e., your father (Scripture adduces those who are most beloved by you, how much more so others (who incite you thus!)], in secret [(this being the common mode for such incitement)], saying: Let us go and serve other gods, which you did not know, neither you nor your fathers [(Even the heathens do not forsake what their fathers have bequeathed them — and this one bids you to do so!)]


###### Deuteronomy 13:8
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מֵאֱלֹהֵ֣י הָֽעַמִּ֗ים אֲשֶׁר֙ סְבִיבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם הַקְּרֹבִ֣ים אֵלֶ֔יךָ א֖וֹ הָרְחֹקִ֣ים מִמֶּ֑ךָּ מִקְצֵ֥ה הָאָ֖רֶץ וְעַד־קְצֵ֥ה הָאָֽרֶץ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
From the gods of the nations that surround you, who are near you or at a distance from you, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the earth,

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, either near to thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Of the gods of the peoples around you, who are near to you or who are far from you [(Just as there is (manifestly) nothing to those near you, so there is nothing to those distant from you)], from one end of the earth [the sun, the moon, and the hosts of heaven (which go from one end of the world)] until the other —


###### Deuteronomy 13:9
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לֹא־תֹאבֶ֣ה ל֔וֹ וְלֹ֥א תִשְׁמַ֖ע אֵלָ֑יו וְלֹא־תָח֤וֹס עֵֽינְךָ֙ עָלָ֔יו וְלֹֽא־תַחְמֹ֥ל וְלֹֽא־תְכַסֶּ֖ה עָלָֽיו׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Do not be favorbly inclined towards him, and do not listen to him; and do not view him compassionately, and do not take pity and do not cover for him.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
thou shalt not consent to him, nor hearken to him; nor shall thy eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare, nor shalt thou conceal him:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You shall feel no affection for him, and you shall not hearken to him [when he pleads for his life], and your eye shall not be compassionate towards him, and you shall not pity [i.e., You shall not seek an "out" for him], and you shall not cover up for him [if you know something against him].


###### Deuteronomy 13:10
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כִּ֤י הָרֹג֙ תַּֽהַרְגֶ֔נּוּ יָ֥דְךָ֛ תִּֽהְיֶה־בּ֥וֹ בָרִֽאשׁוֹנָ֖ה לַהֲמִית֑וֹ וְיַ֥ד כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם בָּאַחֲרֹנָֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
For you must surely execute him. Let your hand strike him first to execute him, and the hand of the entire people afterward.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But kill shall you kill him [If he has left beth-din acquitted, return him for conviction; if he has left beth-din convicted, do not return him for acquittal.] Your hand shall be against him first to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterwards. [It is a mitzvah for the one incited to put him to death; if he does not die by his hand, he is to die by the hand of others.]


###### Deuteronomy 13:11
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וּסְקַלְתּ֥וֹ בָאֲבָנִ֖ים וָמֵ֑ת כִּ֣י בִקֵּ֗שׁ לְהַדִּֽיחֲךָ֙ מֵעַל֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ הַמּוֹצִיאֲךָ֛ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֥ית עֲבָדִֽים׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
And you are to stone him with stones so that he dies, for he sought to mislead you from Adonoy, your God, Who took you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to draw thee away from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Miżrayim, from the house of bondage.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And you shall stone him with stones and he shall die; for he sought to turn you from the L-rd your G-d, who took you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


###### Deuteronomy 13:12
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וְכׇ֨ל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׁמְע֖וּ וְיִֽרָא֑וּן וְלֹֽא־יוֹסִ֣פוּ לַעֲשׂ֗וֹת כַּדָּבָ֥ר הָרָ֛ע הַזֶּ֖ה בְּקִרְבֶּֽךָ׃{ס}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
And all of Yisroel will hear and will fear, and they will not proceed to do so evil a thing as this, within you.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And all Yisra᾽el shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And all of Israel shall hear and see, and they shall not do again according to this evil thing in your midst.


###### Deuteronomy 13:13
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כִּֽי־תִשְׁמַ֞ע בְּאַחַ֣ת עָרֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁר֩ יְהֹוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֛ לָשֶׁ֥בֶת שָׁ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If you hear in one of your cities that Adonoy, your God, is giving you in which to settle, the following:

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God has given thee to dwell there, saying,

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If you hear in one of your cities which the L-rd your G-d gives you to dwell there [(This excludes Jerusalem, which was not intended as a dwelling (for a particular tribe)], saying:


###### Deuteronomy 13:14
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יָצְא֞וּ אֲנָשִׁ֤ים בְּנֵֽי־בְלִיַּ֙עַל֙ מִקִּרְבֶּ֔ךָ וַיַּדִּ֛יחוּ אֶת־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י עִירָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר נֵלְכָ֗ה וְנַעַבְדָ֛ה אֱלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יְדַעְתֶּֽם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
‘‘Men have gone out—unscrupulous —from among you, and they have misled the inhabitants of their city by saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods ’ that you do not know.’’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Certain men, wicked persons, are gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
There have gone out men [(Women are excluded)], who have cast off the yoke [of Heaven] from your midst, and they have turned astray the dwellers of their city [(but not the dwellers of a different city)], saying: Let us go and serve other gods that you did not know,


###### Deuteronomy 13:15
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וְדָרַשְׁתָּ֧ וְחָקַרְתָּ֛ וְשָׁאַלְתָּ֖ הֵיטֵ֑ב וְהִנֵּ֤ה אֱמֶת֙ נָכ֣וֹן הַדָּבָ֔ר נֶעֶשְׂתָ֛ה הַתּוֹעֵבָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את בְּקִרְבֶּֽךָ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
You must investigate, inquire, and interrogate thoroughly; and if in fact the report is true and accurate—this abomination was committed among you.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then you shall inquire, and you shall search out, and you shall ask well, and, behold, true and correct is the thing; this abomination has been done in your midst,


###### Deuteronomy 13:16
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הַכֵּ֣ה תַכֶּ֗ה אֶת־יֹ֥שְׁבֵ֛י הָעִ֥יר הַהִ֖וא לְפִי־חָ֑רֶב הַחֲרֵ֨ם אֹתָ֧הּ וְאֶת־כׇּל־אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֛הּ וְאֶת־בְּהֶמְתָּ֖הּ לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
You must surely strike down the inhabitants of that city by the sword; annihilate it and everything that is in it, and its livestock by the sword.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is in it, and its cattle with the edge of the sword.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Smite shall you smite [(If you cannot administer the prescribed death, administer another)] the inhabitants of that city by the sword. Lay it waste, and all that is in it, and its beasts, by the sword.


###### Deuteronomy 13:17
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וְאֶת־כׇּל־שְׁלָלָ֗הּ תִּקְבֹּץ֮ אֶל־תּ֣וֹךְ רְחֹבָהּ֒ וְשָׂרַפְתָּ֨ בָאֵ֜שׁ אֶת־הָעִ֤יר וְאֶת־כׇּל־שְׁלָלָהּ֙ כָּלִ֔יל לַיהֹוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וְהָיְתָה֙ תֵּ֣ל עוֹלָ֔ם לֹ֥א תִבָּנֶ֖ה עֽוֹד׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
And all its booty are you to collect within its plaza, and you are to burn in fire the city and all its booty—totally—for Adonoy, your God; and it will be a ruin forever, it is never to be rebuilt.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the open place of the city, and shalt burn with fire both the city and the entire plunder taken in it, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And all of its spoil shall you gather into the midst of its square, and you shall burn with fire the city and all its spoil, entire, to the L-rd your G-d [i.e., in His name and for His sake]. And it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.


###### Deuteronomy 13:18
[Deuteronomy 13:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/13:18)

וְלֹֽא־יִדְבַּ֧ק בְּיָדְךָ֛ מְא֖וּמָה מִן־הַחֵ֑רֶם לְמַ֩עַן֩ יָשׁ֨וּב יְהֹוָ֜ה מֵחֲר֣וֹן אַפּ֗וֹ וְנָֽתַן־לְךָ֤ רַחֲמִים֙ וְרִֽחַמְךָ֣ וְהִרְבֶּ֔ךָ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖ע לַאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Let nothing of the *cherem* cling to your hand; so that Adonoy withdraws His raising fury and grant you mercy, and He will be merciful toward you and multiply you as He swore to your forefathers

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And nothing of that which was devoted to destruction shall remain in your hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he has sworn to thy fathers;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And let naught from the spoil adhere to your hand, so that the L-rd turn from the burning of His wrath [(For so long as idolatry is in the world, burning wrath is in the world)] and He will grant you mercy and He will be merciful to you and He will multiply you as He swore to your fathers,


###### Deuteronomy 13:19
[Deuteronomy 13:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/13:19)

כִּ֣י תִשְׁמַ֗ע בְּקוֹל֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לִשְׁמֹר֙ אֶת־כׇּל־מִצְוֺתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּ֑וֹם לַעֲשׂוֹת֙ הַיָּשָׁ֔ר בְּעֵינֵ֖י יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃{ס}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
When you heed the voice of Adonoy, your God, to guard all His commandments that I am commanding you today, to do the upright in the eyes of Adonoy, your God.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
when thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When you hearken to the voice of the L-rd your G-d to keep all of His mitzvoth that I command you this day, to do what is just in the eyes of the L-rd your G-d.