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The witnesses[a] must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people[b] are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge the evil from among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:7 tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
  2. Deuteronomy 17:7 tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”