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The hand of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

“If any case is too difficult for you to judge—between one kind of homicide and another, between one kind of lawsuit and another, between one kind of assault and another, [a]being controversial issues in your [b]courts—then you shall arise and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses. So you shall come to the Levitical priests or to the judge who is in office at that time, and you shall consult them and they will declare to you the [c]verdict in the case.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:8 Lit any words of judgment.
  2. Deuteronomy 17:8 Lit gates.
  3. Deuteronomy 17:9 Lit the word of judgment.

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