Men, base fellows, have gone out from your midst and have led astray the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” that you have not known.
English: “The inhabitants of their city” — the inhabitants of their own city, and not the inhabitants of another city.
On the daf / in context: If the seducers lead the people of a different city astray, that other city is not judged as an ir ha-nidachas; the individuals are treated as ordinary idolaters.
Type of Learning
Derash on the verse (Sanhedrin) — the seduction must be of the seducers’ own city.
What Is Learned
Only the inhabitants of the seducers’ own city can become an ir ha-nidachas through their words.