Deuteronomy 13:9
Good News Translation
Kill them! Be the first to stone them, and then let everyone else stone them too.

New Revised Standard Version
But you shall surely kill them; your own hand shall be first against them to execute them, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

New American Bible
but kill that person. Your hand shall be the first raised to put such a one to death; the hand of all the people shall follow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

But

Deuteronomy 17:2-7 When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, . . .

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

thine hand

Deuteronomy 17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

John 8:7 When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Acts 7:58 And casting him forth without the city. they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.

Context
Idolaters to Be Put to Death
8Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him, 9But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.10With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage:…
Cross References
Acts 7:58
And casting him forth without the city. they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.

Leviticus 24:14
Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp: and let them that heard him, put their hands upon his head: and let all the people stone him.

Deuteronomy 13:5
And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy 17:7
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy 13:8
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