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Deuteronomy 17:5-7
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 17:5-7
New English Translation
5 you must bring to your city gates[a] that man or woman who has done this wicked thing—that very man or woman—and you must stone that person to death.[b] 6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses the person must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. 7 The witnesses[c] must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people[d] are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge the evil from among you.
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- Deuteronomy 17:5 tn Heb “gates.”
- Deuteronomy 17:5 tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”
- 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).
- Deuteronomy 17:7 tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”
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