⁷ The hands of the witnesses shall be the first raised to put the person to death, and afterward the hands of all the people.^(A) Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

¹² Anyone who acts presumptuously and does not obey the priest^[a] who officiates there in the ministry of the Lord, your God, or the judge, shall die. Thus shall you purge the evil from Israel.

¹⁹ you shall do to the false witness just as that false witness planned to do to the other. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

²¹ Then all his fellow citizens shall stone him to death. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.^(A)

²¹ they shall bring the young woman to the entrance of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a shameful crime in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.^(A)

²² If a man is discovered lying with a woman who is married to another, they both shall die, the man who was lying with the woman as well as the woman.^(B) Thus shall you purge the evil from Israel.

²⁴ you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the young woman because she did not cry out though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

⁷ If anyone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite, enslaving or selling the victim, that kidnapper shall be put to death.^(A) Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

¹⁶ For this, says the Lord, I am sending you from the face of the earth; this very year you shall die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord.^(A)

³² therefore thus says the Lord, I will punish Shemaiah, the Nehelamite, and his descendants. None of them shall dwell among this people to see the good I will do for this people—oracle of the Lord—because he preached rebellion against the Lord.