Deuteronomy 17:2-13
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k "If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, l in transgressing his covenant,
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and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or m the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, n which I have forbidden,
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and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire o diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel,
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then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you p shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.
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q On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.
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r The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So s you shall purge the evil from your midst.
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"If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to t the place that the Lord your God will choose.
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u And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and v they shall declare to you the decision.
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Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the Lord will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.
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According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.
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The man who w acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest x who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So s you shall purge the evil from Israel.
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And all the people y shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:2 - 7
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
Deuteronomy 13:6 - 14
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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Cross References
Joshua 7:11
Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my co...
Joshua 7:15
And he who is taken with the devoted things sha...
Joshua 23:16
If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your...
Judges 2:20
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Is...
2 Kings 18:12
Because they did not obey the voice of the Lord...
Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; t...
Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vultur...
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:19
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
Jeremiah 19:5
And have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind -
Jeremiah 32:35
They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you.
Deuteronomy 19:18
The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely.
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Cross References
Leviticus 24:14
Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Leviticus 24:16
Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Joshua 7:25
And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
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Cross References
John 8:17
In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.
Numbers 35:30
If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:9
But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
Acts 7:58
Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 13:5
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:17
Then both parties to the dispute shall appear b...
Deuteronomy 21:5
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come ...
2 Chronicles 19:8
Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed ce...
2 Chronicles 19:10
Whenever a case comes to you from your brothers...
Psalms 122:5
There thrones for judgment were set, the throne...
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, "Come, let us make plots agains...
Haggai 2:11
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests ab...
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge...
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Cross References
Ezekiel 44:24
In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:20
But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
Deuteronomy 18:22
When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
Ezra 10:8
And that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
Deuteronomy 18:5
For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.
Deuteronomy 18:7
And ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:7
The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:11
And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.
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