Deuteronomy 17:7

And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shall you remove the evil one from among yourselves.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6+ 17:6 John 8:17 He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who + 17:6 Gr. dies shall not die. is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.

8And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, + 17:8 Gr. blood between blood, etc. between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:5And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make you err from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed you from bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in: so shall you abolish the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 13:9you shall surely report concerning him, and your hands shall be upon him among the first to kill him, and the hands of all the people at the last.

Deuteronomy 17:12And the man whoever shall act in haughtiness, so as not to listen to the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord your God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and you shall remove the evil one out of Israel.

Deuteronomy 21:21And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.

Deuteronomy 22:22And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, you⌃ shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you remove the wicked one out of Israel.

Deuteronomy 24:7And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be + 24:7 Lit. guiltless. free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 17:2-8

The Punishment of Idolatry. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God. 2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of… Read the whole commentary →

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