Chapter 17
1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God cattle or sheep that has a blemish, any bad matter, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.
2If a man or a woman who does what is bad in the eyes of the LORD your God, thereby breaking his covenant, is found in your midst in any of your gates that the LORD your God is giving you,
3and that person has gone and served other gods and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to all the host of heaven, which I did not command,
4and it is reported to you and you hear of it, and you investigate carefully, and if the matter is confirmed to be true that this abomination has been done in Israel,
5then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates—the man or the woman—and you shall stone them to death with stones.
6On the testimony of two or three witnesses the condemned person shall be put to death, but shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
7The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
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Deuteronomy
Forbidden Worship
Deuteronomy 16:21-17:7
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