² “^(A)If there is found in your midst, in any of your ^[a]towns which the Lord your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, by violating His covenant, ³ and that person has gone and ^(B)served other gods and worshiped them, ^(C)or the sun, the moon, or any of the heavenly ^[b]lights, ^(D)which I have commanded not to do, ⁴ and if it is reported to you and you have heard about it, then you shall investigate thoroughly. And ^[c]if it is true and the report is trustworthy that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, ⁵ then you are to bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil deed, that is, the man or the woman, and ^(E)you shall stone them to ^[d]death. ^6 (F)On the ^[e]testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses, the ^[f]condemned shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the ^[g]testimony of only one witness. ^7 (G)The hands of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. ^(H)So you shall eliminate the evil from your midst.

^18 (A)so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you ^(B)a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.