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and it is reported to you or you hear about it and you enquire about it thoroughly and, indeed,[a] the trustworthiness of the deed[b] has been established, it has occurred,[c] this detestable thing, in Israel, then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has[d] done this evil thing to your gates; that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones to death.[e] On the evidence of[f] two or three witnesses the person shall be put to death.[g] The person[h] shall not be put to death by the mouth of one witness.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:4 Or “look!”
  2. Deuteronomy 17:4 Hebrew “the thing”
  3. Deuteronomy 17:4 Literally “has been done”
  4. Deuteronomy 17:5 Hebrew “have”
  5. Deuteronomy 17:5 Literally “and so they die”
  6. Deuteronomy 17:6 Literally “By the mouth of”
  7. Deuteronomy 17:6 Literally “he/she shall be put to death, the dead person”
  8. Deuteronomy 17:6 Hebrew “he/she”