Graphic Bible · Scene 17 of 19

Household bundles, baskets and plain pottery lie gathered in an empty square.
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Deuteronomy 13:17

Spoil, Fire, and Perpetual Ruin

Refuse the Enticement and Inquire Thoroughly · Deuteronomy 13

Story guide: These gathered objects illustrate the law’s instruction concerning the spoil in the open square.

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17You shall gather all its spoil into the middle of its open square, and you shall burn the city and all its spoil with fire as a whole offering to Yahweh your God. It shall remain a perpetual ruin mound; it shall not be rebuilt again.

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