⁷ The witnesses’ hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people.^(A) You must purge the evil from you.^(B)

¹² The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the Lord your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

¹³ Do not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.

¹⁹ you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from you.

⁹ You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

²¹ Then all the men of his city will stone him to death.^(A) You must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

²¹ they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

²² “If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel. ²³ If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her, ²⁴ take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s fiancée. You must purge the evil from you.

⁷ “If a man is discovered kidnapping^(A) one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.

³⁸ I will purge you of those who rebel and transgress against me.^(A) I will bring them out of the land where they live as foreign residents, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁵ I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you among the countries;^(A) I will purge your uncleanness.^(B)