⁵ you shall bring the man or the woman who has done this evil deed out to your gates^[a] and stone the man or the woman to death. 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.

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)

²⁰ But if this charge is true, and evidence of the young woman’s virginity is not found, 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.

²³ If there is a young woman, a virgin who is betrothed,^[a] and a man comes upon her in the city and lies with her, 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.

²⁵ Joshua said, “What misery have you caused us? May the Lord bring misery upon you today!”^(A) And all Israel stoned him to death. They burnt them with fire and they stoned them. ²⁶ Over Achan they piled a great heap of stones, which remains to the present day.^(B) Then the Lord turned from his anger. That is why the place is called the Valley of Achor^[a] to this day.

¹³ Two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and the scoundrels accused him in the presence of the people, “Naboth has cursed God and king.” And they led him out of the city and stoned him to death. ¹⁴ Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”