¹⁷ Then both of them must stand in front of the judges that the Lord has chosen. Those are the priests and the judges who have authority at that time. ¹⁸ The judges must be careful to discover who is telling the truth. The person may be speaking lies against another Israelite to accuse him. ¹⁹ If he is telling lies, you must punish him in the same way that he wanted to punish the other Israelite. You must remove evil things like this from among yourselves.