If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship;

Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,

And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

These things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for ever;

And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders: