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then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has[a] done this evil thing to your gates; that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones to death.[b] On the evidence of[c] two or three witnesses the person shall be put to death.[d] The person[e] shall not be put to death by the mouth of one witness. The hand of the witnesses shall be first against the person[f] to kill the person,[g] and afterward the hands[h] of all the people, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:5 Hebrew “have”
  2. Deuteronomy 17:5 Literally “and so they die”
  3. Deuteronomy 17:6 Literally “By the mouth of”
  4. Deuteronomy 17:6 Literally “he/she shall be put to death, the dead person”
  5. Deuteronomy 17:6 Hebrew “he/she”
  6. Deuteronomy 17:7 Hebrew “him”
  7. Deuteronomy 17:7 Hebrew “him”
  8. Deuteronomy 17:7 Hebrew “hand”