¹² The Lord your God will give you towns to live in. When you are there, you may hear news of people who are causing trouble. ¹³ They may be turning the other people in their town away from the Lord. They may be saying, ‘We should worship other gods!’ Those are gods that you never knew about before.

¹⁴ Then you must check carefully that the news is true. You must discover whether people really have done this wicked thing in one of your towns.