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Deuteronomy 17:6-8
Lexham English Bible

6 On the evidence of[a] two or three witnesses the person shall be put to death.[b] The person[c] shall not be put to death by the mouth of one witness. 7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first against the person[d] to kill the person,[e] and afterward the hands[f] of all the people, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

8 “If a matter is too difficult for you,[g] for example disputes between blood and blood,[h] between legal claim and legal claim[i] and between assault and assault[j] and between matters of discernment in your towns,[k] then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:6 Literally “By the mouth of”
  2. Deuteronomy 17:6 Literally “he/she shall be put to death, the dead person”
  3. Deuteronomy 17:6 Hebrew “he/she”
  4. Deuteronomy 17:7 Hebrew “him”
  5. Deuteronomy 17:7 Hebrew “him”
  6. Deuteronomy 17:7 Hebrew “hand”
  7. Deuteronomy 17:8 Literally “If is difficult/wonderful from you a thing for judgment”
  8. Deuteronomy 17:8 Or “between one homicide and another”
  9. Deuteronomy 17:8 Or “one kind of lawsuit and another”
  10. Deuteronomy 17:8 Or “one kind of abuse and another”
  11. Deuteronomy 17:8 Literally “gates”
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