¹⁴ “Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.^(A)

³⁵ Then the Lord told Moses, “The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp.” ³⁶ So the entire community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The Judicial Procedure for Idolatry

² “If^(A) a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the Lord your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God and violating His covenant^{(B) 3} and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky—which I have forbidden— ⁴ and if you are told or hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened in Israel, ⁵ you must bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death. ⁶ The one condemned to die is to be executed on the testimony of two or three witnesses. No one is to be executed on the testimony of a single witness. ⁷ The witnesses’ hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people.^(C) You must purge the evil from you.^(D)

²¹ Then all the men of his city will stone him to death.^(A) You must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

²⁵ Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us?^(A) Today the Lord will trouble you!” So all Israel stoned them^[a] to death. They burned their bodies,^[b] threw stones on them,