Common English Bible

Deuteronomy 17:5-9 Common English Bible (CEB)

5. then you must bring out the man or woman who has done this evil thing to the gates of the city. Stone that person until he or she is dead.

6. Capital punishment must be decided by two or three witnesses. No one may be executed on the basis of only one testimony.

7. In the execution, the hands of the witnesses must be against the guilty person from the start; the hand of all the people will be involved at the end. Remove such evil from your community!

8. If some legal dispute in your cities is too difficult for you to decide—say, between different kinds of bloodshed, different kinds of legal ruling, or different kinds of injury—then take it to the location the Lord your God selects.

9. Go to the levitical priests and to the head judge in office at that time and look into things there. They will announce to you the correct ruling.