Deuteronomy 17:1-7 ▼

1 You shall not sacrifice to YHWH your God a bull or sheep that has in it a blemish, any serious flaw; for it is an abomination to YHWH your God.

2 If there is found among you in one of your gates that YHWH your God is giving to you a man or a woman who has been wicked in the eyes of YHWH your God in transgressing His covenant,

3 and who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, and the sun or the moon or any of the host of the heavens that I have not commanded,

4 and it is told to you and you hear it, you shall inquire diligently. And if indeed true the thing is established—this abomination has been done in Israel—

5 then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has committed this wicked thing to your gates—the man or the woman—and you shall stone them with stones and they shall die.

6 On the testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses he must surely be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

7 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and the hands of all the people afterward. And you shall put away the evil from among you.