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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
10. But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him
to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
11. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to
thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage.
12. And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wicked-
ness as this is among you.
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Quite an interesting situation looms: the God Jehovah demands any Israelite
immediately to kill anyone who just tries to shake another’s faith in him, independ-
ent of who does it: whether it be brother, sister, mother, father, son, daughter, or
friend. A true Israelite must kill such an apostate-Israelite immediately for the
glory of the God Jehovah! Any Israelite is required to do this in the name of God
even for the mere intention of shaking someone’s faith in the God Jehovah! I would
like to emphasize that; even an intention should be punished by death, no matter who
the “tempter” is!

Every Israelite must be loyal neither to his family, nor to his friends, but only
to the God Jehovah. Every Israelite must be faithful solely to him. If such a pun-
ishment should be imposed only because of an attempt to tempt an Israelite with an-
other faith, what then has the God Jehovah prepared for those Israelites who, never-
theless, have been tempted and refused, for one or another reason, to obey the God
Jehovah’s laws? For the execution of these laws he appointed the tribe of Levi to be
the keepers and supervisors. Here is what is said on this occasion in books sacred
to any Israelite:

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13. If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath giv-
en thee to dwell there,
14. Nasty men are gone out from among you, and have seduced the inhabitants
of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not
known”, —
15. Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if
it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
16. Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the
sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with
the edge of the sword.
17. And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof,
and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the
LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
18. And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the
LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have

194 The Pentateuch and Haftorahs. The book of Dvarim. R’e XIII, 7-12, p. 1165-1167.

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