6. Capital punishment must be decided by two or three witnesses. No one may be executed on the basis of only one testimony.
7. In the execution, the hands of the witnesses must be against the guilty person from the start; the hand of all the people will be involved at the end. Remove such evil from your community!
8. If some legal dispute in your cities is too difficult for you to decide—say, between different kinds of bloodshed, different kinds of legal ruling, or different kinds of injury—then take it to the location the Lord your God selects.
9. Go to the levitical priests and to the head judge in office at that time and look into things there. They will announce to you the correct ruling.
10. You must then act according to the ruling they announced to you from that location, the one the Lord selects. You must follow very carefully everything they instruct you to do.
11. Act precisely according to the instruction they give you and the ruling they announce to you. Don’t deviate even a bit from the word they announce.
12. And whoever acts rashly by not listening to the priest who is in office serving the Lord your God or to the head judge will die. Remove such evil from Israel!
13. All the people will hear about this and be afraid. They won’t act arrogantly anymore.
14. Once you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you and you have taken possession of it and settled down in it, you might say: "Let’s appoint a king over us, as all our neighboring nations have done."
15. You can indeed appoint over you a king that the Lord your God selects. You can appoint over you a king who is one of your fellow Israelites. You are not allowed to appoint over you a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.
16. That granted, the king must not acquire too many horses, and he must not return the people to Egypt in order to acquire more horses, because the Lord told you: "You will never go back by that road again."