Deuteronomy 13:12
New International Version
If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in

New Living Translation
“When you begin living in the towns the LORD your God is giving you, you may hear

English Standard Version
“If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there,

Berean Standard Bible
If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said

King James Bible
If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

New King James Version
“If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell in, saying,

New American Standard Bible
“If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that

NASB 1995
“If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that

NASB 1977
“If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that

Legacy Standard Bible
“If you hear in one of your cities, which Yahweh your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that

Amplified Bible
“If you hear [it said] in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to live in,

Christian Standard Bible
“If you hear it said about one of your cities the LORD your God is giving you to live in,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you hear it said about one of your cities the LORD your God is giving you to live in,

American Standard Version
If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when you will hear in one of your cities that LORD JEHOVAH your God gives you in which to dwell, and they will say to you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if in one of thy cities which the Lord God gives thee to dwell therein, thou shalt hear men saying,

Contemporary English Version
After the LORD your God gives you towns to live in, you may hear a rumor about one of the towns.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to dwell in, thou hear some say:

English Revised Version
If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You may hear that the residents in one of the cities which the LORD your God is giving you to live in

Good News Translation
"When you are living in the towns that the LORD your God gives you, you may hear

International Standard Version
"You may hear in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit

JPS Tanakh 1917
If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying:

Literal Standard Version
When you hear [someone] in one of your cities, which your God YHWH is giving to you to dwell there, saying,

Majority Standard Bible
If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said

New American Bible
If you hear it said concerning one of the cities which the LORD, your God, gives you to dwell in,

NET Bible
Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you as a place to live, that

New Revised Standard Version
If you hear it said about one of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you to live in,

New Heart English Bible
If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell there, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou shalt hear, in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

World English Bible
If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that

Young's Literal Translation
When thou hearest, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to dwell there, one saying,

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Context
Idolatrous Cities to Be Destroyed
12If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said 13that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:11
Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.

Deuteronomy 13:13
that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods" (which you have not known),


Treasury of Scripture

If you shall hear say in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,

Joshua 22:11
And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.

Judges 20:1,2
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh…

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Deuteronomy 13
1. Enticers to idolatry
6. however near to oneself
9. are to be stoned to death
12. Idolatrous cities are not to be spared














(12) If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities.--The only case of this kind is the case of Gibeah. We may fairly assume the abominations done there to have been connected with idolatry, from the allusions in Hosea 9:9; Hosea 10:9. But the outrage rather than the idolatry seems to have excited the indignation of Israel (see Judges 20, 21). It is noticeable that in the remonstrance with the Benjamites at Gibeah--(Judges 20:13): "Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel"--there seems to be an allusion to the language of this chapter in Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 13:11.

Verses 12-18. - A third ease supposed is that of the inhabitants of a city being seduced by wicked men into idolatry. In this case inquiry was to be made as to the fact; and if it was found to be so, the inhabitants of that city were to be put to the sword, all their property was to be burnt, and the city itself reduced to a heap; so should the anger of the Lord be averted from Israel, and he would do them good. Verse 12. - Hear in one of thy cities. The Hebrew phrase, "to hear in" (שָׁמַע בְּ). has sometimes the meaning of to overhear, as in Genesis 27:5; 1 Samuel 17:28; Job 15:8; sometimes it means simply to hear, as in 2 Samuel 19:36 [35]; in Job 26:14, it has the force of to hear of or concerning, though some think this questionable. This latter is apparently the meaning here: If thou hear concerning any of thy cities, etc. Baying. This introduces what is heard.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If,
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

regarding one
בְּאַחַ֣ת (bə·’a·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-b | Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's 259: United, one, first

of the cities
עָרֶ֗יךָ (‘ā·re·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

the LORD
יְהוָ֨ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

is giving
נֹתֵ֥ן (nō·ṯên)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

you
לְךָ֛ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

to inhabit,
לָשֶׁ֥בֶת (lā·še·ḇeṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

you hear
תִשְׁמַ֞ע (ṯiš·ma‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

it said
לֵאמֹֽר׃ (lê·mōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 559: To utter, say


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