Deu 17:2-6 | ESV | STEP | If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God , in transgressing his covenant ,

Deuteronomy 17:2-6

2 ^a“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, ^bin transgressing his covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or ^cthe sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, ^dwhich I have forbidden, 4 and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire ^ediligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you ^fshall stone that man or woman to death with stones. 6 ^gOn the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.