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But only on the testimony of two or three witnesses may a person be put to death. No one may be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
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The witnesses must throw the first stones in the execution, then the rest of the community joins in. You have to purge the evil from your community.
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When matters of justice come up that are too much for you - hard cases regarding homicides, legal disputes, fights - take them up to the central place of worship that God, your God, has designated.
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Bring them to the Levitical priests and the judge who is in office at the time. Consult them and they will hand down the decision for you.
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Then carry out their verdict at the place designated by God, your God. Do what they tell you, in exactly the way they tell you.
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Follow their instructions precisely: Don't leave out anything; don't add anything.
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Anyone who presumes to override or twist the decision handed down by the priest or judge who was acting in the Presence of God, your God, is as good as dead - root him out, rid Israel of the evil.
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Everyone will take notice and be impressed. That will put an end to presumptuous behavior.
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When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you and take it over and settle down, and then say, "I'm going to get me a king, a king like all the nations around me,"
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make sure you get yourself a king whom God, your God, chooses. Choose your king from among your kinsmen; don't take a foreigner - only a kinsman.
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And make sure he doesn't build up a war machine, amassing military horses and chariots. He must not send people to Egypt to get more horses, because God told you, "You'll never go back there again!"