⁹ You must certainly put them to death.^(A) Your hand^(B) must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people.

⁵ take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.^{(A) 6} On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.^{(B) 7} The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death,^(C) and then the hands of all the people.^(D) You must purge the evil^(E) from among you.

⁵⁸ dragged him out of the city^(A) and began to stone him.^(B) Meanwhile, the witnesses^(C) laid their coats^(D) at the feet of a young man named Saul.^(E)