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14 then you shall inquire and make a thorough investigation. If the charge is established that such an abhorrent thing has been done among you,

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14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly.(A) And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you,(B)

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15 you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly destroying it and everything in it, even putting its livestock to the sword.(A)

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15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,[a](A) both its people and its livestock.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 13:15 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.