You shall not associate with the multitude for evil. You shall not join yourself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those that spied out the land, tore their clothes,

And have no partnership with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose [them].

And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream shall die; for he has spoken to make you err from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed you from bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you abolish the evil from among you.

of the gods of the nations that are round about you, who are near you or at a distance from you, from one end of the earth to the other;

you shall surely report concerning him, and your hands shall be upon him among the first to slay him, and the hands of all the people at the last.

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not again do according to this evil thing among you.

Evil men have gone out from you, and have caused all the inhabitants of their land to fall away, saying, Let us go and worship other gods, whom you knew not,

you shall utterly destroy all the inhabitants of that land with the edge of the sword; you shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it.

And none of the cursed things shall cleave to your hand, that the Lord may turn from His fierce anger, and show you mercy, and pity you, and multiply you, as He swore to your fathers;

And if there should be found in any of your cities which the Lord your God gives you, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord your God, so as to transgress His covenant,

and it be told you, and you shall have inquired diligently, and behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;

He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.

And Elijah said to the people, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon, and he executed them there.

And it was noon, and Elijah the Tishbite mocked them, and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or else perhaps he is engaged in business, or perhaps he is asleep, and needs to be awakened.

And they prophesied until the evening came. And it came to pass as it was the time of the offering of the sacrifice, that Elijah the Tishbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations, saying, Stand by for the present, and I will offer my sacrifice. And they stood aside and departed.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell;

tell us, declare to us the things that are coming on at the last [time], and we shall know that you are gods; do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time

Bel has fallen, Nebo is broken to pieces, their graven images have gone to the wild beasts and the cattle; you take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and [at the same time] helpless man;

They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

they will set them up that they may not move.

Thus shall you say to them: Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.

Therefore concerning the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.