²⁸ Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.^(A)

³⁰ “‘But anyone who sins defiantly,^(A) whether native-born or foreigner,^(B) blasphemes the Lord^(C) and must be cut off from the people of Israel.^{(D) 31} Because they have despised^(E) the Lord’s word and broken his commands,^(F) they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.^(G)’”

³ You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor.^(A) The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,

² If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the Lord gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God in violation of his covenant,^(A)

⁵ take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.^(A)

¹² Anyone who shows contempt^(A) for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering^(B) there to the Lord your God is to be put to death.^(C) You must purge the evil from Israel.^(D)