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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.”

The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death,(A) and then the hands of all the people.(B) You must purge the evil(C) from among you.

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