Deuteronomy 17:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 Only on the testimony of two or three witnesses shall a person be put to death;(A) no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. 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.(B) Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
Judges. 8 (C)If there is a case for judgment which proves too baffling for you to decide, in a matter of bloodshed or of law or of injury, matters of dispute within your gates, you shall then go up to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose,
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