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Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God
any bullock or sheep in which there is a blemish
or anything wrong, for that
is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
2
If there is found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God gives thee, man or woman that has wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God in transgressing his covenant
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and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them or the sun or
the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,
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and it is told unto thee and thou hast heard
of it and enquired diligently, and, behold,
it is true,
and the thing certain
that such abomination is wrought in Israel,
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then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that wicked thing unto thy gates,
even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones until they die.
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At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death,
but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
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The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
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If a matter arises that is too difficult for thee in judgment between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke,
being matters of controversy within thy gates, then thou shalt arise and go up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose,
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and thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days and enquire, and they shall show thee the word of judgment.
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And thou shalt do according to the word which those of that place which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall show thee.
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According to the word of the law which they shall show thee and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not decline from the word which they shall show thee,
to the right hand nor
to the left.