6. At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
7. The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
8. If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, legal claim, or assault – matters of controversy in your villages – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.
9. You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.