Deuteronomy 13:12-14

American Standard Version

¹² If thou shalt hear tell ^[a]concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying, ¹³ Certain ^[b]base fellows are gone out from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; ¹⁴ then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,