Deuteronomy 17:6

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4 ^aand it is told you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an¹ abomination has been committed in Israel,

5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and ^ashall stone ^bto death that man or woman with stones.

6 Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three ^awitnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among ^ayou.

8 ^a“If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the ^bplace which the Lord your God chooses.

9 And ^ayou shall come to the priests, the Levites, and ^bto the judge there in those days, and inquire of them; ^cthey shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment.

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Deuteronomy 17:2-7

Compare Deuteronomy 13:1 ff. Here special reference is made to the legal forms to be adopted, Deuteronomy 17:5-7. The sentence was to be carried into effect at "the gates" (compare Genesis 19:1 note) of the town in which the crime was committed; because, as "all the people" were to take a part, an open space would be requisite for the execution. Note the typical and prophetical aspect of the injunction; compare Acts 7:58; Hebrews 13:12.

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