Chapter 16
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You shall not plant an Asherah, any tree, beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make.
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You shall not set up for yourself a standing pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
Chapter 17
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You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which there is any defect or any serious flaw, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.
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If there is found among you, within any of your gates that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing his covenant,
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and he goes and serves other gods and worships them, or the sun or the moon or all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,
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If it is told to you and you hear of it, and you inquire well and, behold, the matter is true, confirmed—this abomination has been done in Israel.
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Then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, that man or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die.
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On the testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses, the one shall be put to death. He shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
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The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and the hands of all the people last. You shall purge the evil from your midst.