4 and if you are told or hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened in Israel,
5 you must bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.
6 The one condemned to die is to be executed on the testimony of two or three witnesses. No one is to be executed on the testimony of a single witness.
7 The witnesses’ hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from you.
8 “If a case is too difficult for you — concerning bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults — cases disputed at your gates, you must go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.
9 You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Ask, and they will give you a verdict in the case.
10 You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you.